California, United States of America
The following excerpt is from People v. St. Andrew, 101 Cal.App.3d 450, 161 Cal.Rptr. 634 (Cal. App. 1980):
This evidence was received without benefit of any limiting instruction as to its relevance. (Cf. People v. Williams (1970) 11 Cal.App.3d 970, 978, 90 Cal.Rptr. 292.) In his closing argument to the jury, the prosecutor made repeated reference to the evidence as "suggest(ing) something about (defendant's) character, his motive, and the other issues in this case," as demonstrating that the defendant had an "unnatural sex interest" in the patients on the floor, as lending credibility to the testimony of the prosecutrix, and as demonstrating that the defendant was not a reliable witness.
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