California, United States of America
The following excerpt is from People v. Huntsinger, E070886 (Cal. App. 2019):
"In order to be admissible to prove intent, the uncharged misconduct must be sufficiently similar to the charged offense to support the inference that the defendant probably acted with the same intent in each instance." (People v. Lindberg (2008) 45 Cal.4th 1, 23.) Defendant argues the trial court abused its discretion in ruling that evidence of his two prior offenses was admissible to show that he intended to steal Beal's truck. We find no abuse of discretion because defendant's uncharged prior offenses were sufficiently similar to the current offenses.
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