How have the courts treated the admission of evidence in a sexual assault case?
California, United States of America
The following excerpt is from People v. Bello, G051573 (Cal. App. 2017):
In any event, the trial court minimized any potential prejudice from the admission of the evidence by instructing the jury that the evidence could only be used to prove intent, not for any other purpose, and that it could not be used, alone, to establish defendant's guilt in the present case. The jury is presumed to have followed those instructions. (People v. Gonzales (2011) 51 Cal.4th 894, 940.)
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