How have the courts treated evidence of inappropriate clothing in a sexual assault trial?
California, United States of America
The following excerpt is from People v. Sayyid-El, 2d Crim. No. B235608 (Cal. App. 2013):
The People claim that the nature of this evidence was not comparatively offensive to jurors given the egregious nature of the evidence about his offenses. We agree. The relatively innocuous evidence about the clothing "paled in comparison to the testimony" of the witnesses who testified against him regarding his sexual offenses. (People v. Doolin, supra, 45 Cal.4th at p. 439.)
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