Does the acquittal of a defendant in a sexual assault case affect the admissible evidence of another crime?
California, United States of America
The following excerpt is from People v. Roman, B284949 (Cal. App. 2018):
Griffin held "that competent and otherwise admissible evidence of another crime is not made inadmissible by reason of the defendant's acquittal of that crime [citation], but the proof of the acquittal was also admissible to weaken and rebut the prosecution's evidence of the other crime." (People v. Jenkins (1970) 3 Cal.App.3d 529, 534.) "[T]he gist of the holding in Griffin is that since 'evidence of other crimes always involves the
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