California, United States of America
The following excerpt is from People v. Navarro, F065680 (Cal. App. 2015):
instance) to negate accident or inadvertence or self-defense or good faith or other innocent mental state ....' [Citation.]" (Id. at p. 880.) Accordingly, "[t]he least degree of similarity (between the uncharged act and the charged offense) is required in order to prove intent." (People v. Ewoldt, supra, at p. 402.) The uncharged act need only "be sufficiently similar to support the inference that the defendant '"probably harbor[ed] the same intent in each instance." [Citation.]' [Citation.]" (Ibid.)
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