What is the effect of challenged evidence in a motor vehicle case?

Even if the challenged evidence was inadmissible, any resulting error, if any, was harmless. The trial court instructed the jury that it could consider the evidence only for the sole purpose of assessing defendant's intent. We presume the jury followed the trial court's instruction. (People v. Pride (1992) 3 Cal.4th 195, 226.) This limiting instruction

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sufficiently countered any prejudice resulting from the evidence of defendant's prior uncharged vehicle thefts.