CALIFORNIA EVIDENCE: CIVIL AND CRIMINAL
...Character and Reputation Evidence
......To Prove Conduct & Prior Bad Acts
.........Narcotics Use/Addiction
............Cases Excluding Evidence
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Defense counsel's cross exam question about W's having smoked marijuana with D was phrased in past tense, referred to some unspecified time and was properly excluded as irrelevant.

Evidence of D's narcotics addiction inadmissible unless directly related to crime charged; otherwise, too prejudicial.

Evidence of D's narcotics use inadmissible where object of charged offense was to obtain money or item other than narcotics.

Evidence of narcotics addiction inadmissible where tenuous probative value re motive far outweighed by tendency to incite jury to decide guilt or innocence based on character rather than elements of crime.

Evidence of narcotics addiction inadmissible where only remotely relevant to prove fact in issue.