CALIFORNIA EVIDENCE: CIVIL AND CRIMINAL
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Character and Reputation Evidence
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To Prove Conduct & Prior Bad Acts
.........Evid. Code §1101 Not Abrogated by Prop. 8
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Even if Prop 8 abrogated Evid. Code §1101, Legislature reenacted statute by amending it in 1986 by >2/3 vote.
Harmless error to admit testimony that D had unique handgun similar to murder weapon a year before murders; also not admissible under EC 1101 as it was propensity evidence.
1986 amendment to Evid. Code §1101 had effect of restoring unamended portion of statute as well.
Evid. Code §1101 not abrogated by Prop. 8.