California, United States of America
The following excerpt is from People v. Garcia, D067452 (Cal. App. 2015):
Third, although defendant argues otherwise, the record includes evidence that, if credited (as turned out to be the case), overwhelmingly supports the defendant's conviction on counts 1, 2 and 3. We have summarized this evidence ante. Although defendant attacks certain inconsistencies in the evidence, including in the trial testimony of Doe 1, on the one hand, and in the statements she made in the probable cause and forensic interviews, on the other, we conclude such inconsistencies went to weight and not admissibility and ostensibly were considered by the jury in deciding guilt. (See People v. Sully (1991) 53 Cal.3d 1195, 1242; see also United States v. Lopez (9th Cir. 2007) 500 F.3d 840, 845 [noting that "'[w]hen deciding whether a prosecutor's reference
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