California, United States of America
The following excerpt is from People v. Gray, D073851 (Cal. App. 2018):
negative accident or inadvertence or self-defense or good faith or other innocent mental state, and tends to establish (provisionally, at least, though not certainly) the presence of the normal, i.e., criminal, intent accompanying such an act . . . .' [Citation.] In order to be admissible to prove intent, the uncharged misconduct must be sufficiently similar to support the inference that the defendant ' "probably harbor[ed] the same intent in each instance." ' " (People v. Ewoldt (1994) 7 Cal.4th 380, 402.)
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