California, United States of America
The following excerpt is from People v. Vercher, C074122 (Cal. App. 2016):
The trial court repeatedly instructed the jury it may not use uncharged crime evidence to conclude that defendant was more likely to have committed the charged crimes because he committed the uncharged crimes. The trial court instructed that other crimes evidence admitted for the purpose of showing intent, motive, common plan or scheme, and absence of mistake or accident was not sufficient, by itself, to prove defendant's guilt of the charged crimes. We presume the jury followed the trial court's instructions on the limited use of uncharged conduct evidence. (People v. Lindberg (2008) 45 Cal.4th 1, 26.)
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