Does a trial court abuse its position in excluding evidence of a prior allegation of sexual assault from a jury?
California, United States of America
The following excerpt is from People v. Ward, D071537, D072039 (Cal. App. 2018):
trial court abused its discretion in excluding the evidence based on the weak nature of the evidence of falsity of the complaints and the confusion of the jury and consumption of time it would have engendered for the parties to embark on the task of litigating the truthfulness of [the victim's] prior complaints." (People v. Tidwell, supra, 163 Cal.App.4th at p. 1458.)
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