Paul Williams EL v. Sheriff Andy Dickson, Carroll County

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• noting that evidence of a- victim’s prior prostitution in a § 1591(a) case is “either entirely irrelevant or of [] slight probative value in comparison to its prejudicial effect”
• holding a victim’s prior commercial sex acts irrelevant to whether the defendant forced her to commit commercial sex acts during the charged timeframe
• evidence offered to show a victim acted consistently with prior sexual behavior \falls squarely within a class deemed so extremely prejudicial as to warrant special treatment under the Federal Rules of Evidence\
• evidence of a trafficking victim's prior prostitution \is either entirely irrelevant or of such slight probative value in comparison to its prejudicial effect that a decision to exclude it would not violate - 57 - [the defendant's] constitutional rights\

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).