CALIFORNIA EVIDENCE: CIVIL AND CRIMINAL
...Character and Reputation Evidence
......To Prove Conduct & Prior Bad Acts
.........Admissible to Show Absence of Mistake
4 Cards On This Topic:
  • Character evidence admissible to prove absence of mistake or accident.
  • Evidence of other crimes admissible to prove fact in issue. (Fed. Rules of Evid.)
  • Evidence D had in past conspired to kill someone else relevant to show his agreement to conspiracy to kill V was genuine and not feigned.
  • No error in admitting Ws' testimony about prior violent encounters with D during which he threatened them with guns; doctrine of chances.