California Supreme Court· 7/18/1991

People v. McAlpin

Citations

812 P.2d 563
53 Cal. 3d 1289
283 Cal. Rptr. 382
91 Daily Journal DAR 8994
91 Cal. Daily Op. Serv. 5655
1991 Cal. LEXIS 3058

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holding that lay opinion testimony that a defendant was “not a person given to lewd conduct with children” was admissible character evidence in a prosecution for child molestation
holding that “normalcy in . . . sexual tastes” and 8 having a high moral character were pertinent traits of character in a case involving 9 lewd conduct with a child (internal quotation marks omitted)
acknowledging that expert 25 testimony on the common reactions of a child molestation victim is “admissible to rehabilitate [the 26 child’s] credibility” but is inadmissible “to prove that [the child] has in fact been sexually 27 abused.”
erroneous exclusion of opinion evidence that defendant was not a person given to lewd conduct was harmless under a reasonable probability standard

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Judges: Mosk, Broussard

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