What is the test for admitting evidence that a person committed a crime, civil wrong or other act?
California, United States of America
The following excerpt is from People v. Valentine, 207 Cal.App.3d 697, 254 Cal.Rptr. 822 (Cal. App. 1988):
"(b) Nothing in this section prohibits the admission of evidence that a person committed a crime, civil wrong, or other act when relevant to prove some fact (such as motive, opportunity, intent, preparation, plan, knowledge, identity, absence of mistake or accident, or whether a defendant in a prosecution for an unlawful sexual act or attempted unlawful
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