What is the test for evidence of a defendant's disposition to commit a crime?

California, United States of America

The following excerpt is from People v. Goodwin, D065440 (Cal. App. 2015):

^12. With exceptions that are irrelevant in light of our assumption, "evidence of a person's character or a trait of his or her character (whether in the form of . . . evidence of specific instances of his or her conduct) is inadmissible when offered to prove his or her conduct on a specified occasion." (Evid. Code, 1101, subd. (a); accord People v. Gray (2005) 37 Cal.4th 168, 202 [evidence of prior crime not admissible to show defendant's disposition to commit charged offense].)

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