How have courts considered the probative and prejudicial aspects of evidence in a sexual assault case?
California, United States of America
The following excerpt is from People v. Sanchez, G055222 (Cal. App. 2019):
the jury. The trial court is not obliged to expressly weigh the probative and prejudicial aspects of the proffered evidence, nor is it required to state that it has done so. (People v. Lucas (1995) 12 Cal.4th 415, 448; People v. Mickey (1991) 54 Cal.3d 612, 656.)
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