CHILDREN AND THE LAW
...Delinquency Matters
......Jurisdictional Hearing
.........Motions to Exclude Evidence
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Evidence a victim of human trafficking engaged in a commercial sex act as a result of being a victim of such, or evidence of a history thereof, inadmissible to impeach victim or attack her credibility.

Standard of Proof.

Trial ct. erred in denying 17-yr.-old human trafficking V's EC §1161 motion to exclude all evidence sought to be introduced by the DA to show she solicited acts of prostitution in violation of PC §647(b).

That the woman with M was older, and was arrested for pimping, was not sufficient to support conclusion M was a victim of the woman's human trafficking rather than intending to commit prostitution; BofP on M.

EC 1161(a) inapplicable where there was substantial evidence M was not a victim of human trafficking in relation to the charge of solicitation of prostitution underlying the W&IC 602 petition.