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COURT OF APPEAL, FOURTH APPELLATE DISTRICT 

DIVISION ONE 

STATE OF CALIFORNIA 

THE PEOPLE, 

 Plaintiff and Respondent, 

 v. 

MARK JESSEE, 

 Defendant and Appellant. 

 D061402 

 (Super. Ct. No. SCD225723) 

 APPEAL from a judgment of the Superior Court of San Diego County, Amalia L. 

Meza, Judge. Affirmed. 

 David L. Polsky, under appointment by the Court of Appeal, for Defendant and 

Appellant. 

 Kamala D. Harris, Attorney General, Dane R. Gillette, Chief Assistant Attorney 

General, Julie L. Garland, Assistant Attorney General, Kimberley Donohue, A. Natasha 

Cortina, Deputy Attorneys General for Plaintiff and Respondent. 
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 A jury convicted Mark Jessee of three counts of a lewd act on a child (Pen. Code, 

§ 288, subd. (a); counts 1, 2 and 3) and aggravated sexual assault (Pen. Code, 

§§ 269/286; count 4). The trial court sentenced him to an indeterminate term of 15 years 

to life on count 4, plus a consecutive determinate 10-year state prison term on counts 1 

through 3 (a midterm of 6 years for count 1 and consecutive two-year terms for counts 2 

and 3). On appeal, Jessee contends the trial court prejudicially erred by admitting certain 

evidence under Evidence Code1 sections 1108 and 1101. We affirm the judgment. 

FACTUAL AND PROCEDURAL BACKGROUND 

 Jessee does not challenge the sufficiency of the evidence of his convictions, so we 

set out the offenses in a summary fashion for purposes of evaluating his evidentiary error 

claims about prior charged and uncharged misconduct. (People v. Miramontes (2010) 

189 Cal.App.4th 1085, 1090 (Miramontes).) 

 In 2004, Jessee's younger brother, Angelo L., permitted Jessee to live with him 

and Angelo's then 10-year-old daughter A. in a two-bedroom home while Angelo's wife 

G., a service member, was deployed. A. and Angelo shared one room while Jessee slept 

in the other. During the next few months, while Jessee was babysitting A. and they were 

alone, Jessee touched her inappropriately, taking her shirt off and touching her breasts. 

He also hit and sodomized A. on one occasion, removing her clothes and putting her face 

down on his bed to do so, when he became upset after she discovered pornographic 

 

1 All statutory references are to the Evidence Code unless otherwise stated. 
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videos in his room. A. asked him to stop but he did not. Afterwards, Jessee told A. she 

could not tell anyone he had touched her in that way. 

 In 2009, Angelo began counseling, which revealed that when he was six years old 

and Jessee was about 11 years old, Jessee had made Angelo orally copulate him. Angelo 

reported the sexual abuse by Jessee to G., who had since moved to Maryland after her 

return from deployment, and G. questioned A., who denied any abuse by Jessee. About a 

month later, however, in late May or early June of 2009, A. finally told her mother about 

Jessee's actions. G. informed police in Maryland. 

 Before trial, the court granted the People's in limine motions to introduce evidence 

of Jessee's sexual acts against Angelo, as well as the testimony of Deborah F., who met 

Jessee while walking home from school and had a sexual relationship with him when she 

was 13 years old. The court permitted introduction of the evidence concerning Angelo, 

reasoning the oral copulation acts between Angelo and Jessee were not more 

inflammatory than the offenses against A.; the acts were committed against relatives; 

while the conduct was not as similar as the incident with A., it did not need to be under 

section 1108; and the conduct was not so prejudicial that it should be removed from the 

jury's consideration. The court also reasoned that Jessee subsequently had not led a 

blameless life, thus lessening any concern about remoteness. As to Jessee's offenses with 

F., the court allowed the testimony under section 1108 as well as 1101, subdivision (b) 

regarding Jessee's intent, possibly lack of mistake or accident, and knowledge. 

 Accordingly, at trial, F. testified that when Jessee was 23 years old and she was 13 

years old, Jessee led F. to believe they were starting a boyfriend-girlfriend relationship; 
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Jessee would walk her to and from school, and bring her flowers and gifts, but it quickly 

turned into kissing and then a sexual relationship. While F. was 13 years old and over the 

next two years, Jessee fondled F.'s breasts, engaged in sexual intercourse with F., and 

sodomized her with his fingers. F. testified there was force involved in their sex acts in 

that she did not feel she had a choice. She also testified Jessee physically hurt her, once 

throwing her across a room. Jessee instructed F. to keep their relationship a secret so she 

did not tell her parents, but her parents ultimately learned of it and the relationship ended. 

After Jessee's acts with F. were reported to police, Jessee pleaded guilty, served five 

months in jail, and was put on three years of probation. 

 The People also introduced Jessee's interview with San Diego Police Detective 

Stacee Botsford, during which Jessee admitted the sexual conduct with Angelo and F., 

but denied any wrongdoing with A. As for Angelo, Jessee claimed they were just kids 

"fooling around with each other sexually" and that it was a "mutual thing." In that 

interview, Jessee said that when Angelo was older, he had wanted to continue that 

relationship but that Jessee made it clear it was not going to happen. Jessee told the 

detective that Angelo perceived the situation as molestation, was "in a rage" about the 

past, had accused Jessee of ruining his life, and had "flooded" his and his girlfriend's 

phones with text messages. Jessee said Angelo told him he would not stop until he 

"ruin[ed] [Jessee's] life," and he anticipated that Angelo or one of his friends would try to 

hurt him because of it. 

Defense Evidence
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 Jessee, who was 44 years old at the time of trial, testified in his defense. He 

admitted to being a "very self-centered drug addict and alcoholic" before becoming 

involved in the church, which caused him to change his behavior. He acknowledged his 

relationship with F., but denied having any interest in prepubescent girls then or at 

present. Jessee denied sexually or physically assaulting F., but conceded he hurt her 

because she was not emotionally ready for that "kind of relationship." 

 Jessee admitted that when he was 11 and 12 years old, after swimming or going to 

the beach and then showering, he and Angelo would touch each other's genitals and 

orally copulate each other. He did not recall forcing Angelo, but stated it was his idea 

and he admitted responsibility for the situation. 

 Jessee testified he did not rape A., sodomize her, touch her breasts in a sexual or 

any way, or view her in a sexual way. He denied assaulting or punching her. 

I. Admission of Charged and Uncharged Misconduct to Prove Propensity under Section 

1108

 Jessee contends the trial court prejudicially erred by admitting evidence of the 

sexual abuse of his brother Angelo, as well as his prior sexual contact with F. Pointing 

out his counsel had conceded the evidence fell within the scope of section 1108, Jessee 

maintains the evidence was more prejudicial than probative, and should have been 

excluded under section 352. 

A. Legal Principles

Generally, evidence of a defendant's character is not admissible to prove his 

conduct on a specific occasion conformed to his character. (§ 1101, subd. (a).) An 
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exception to this rule is set forth in section 1108, subdivision (a), which states: "In a 

criminal action in which the defendant is accused of a sexual offense, evidence of the 

defendant's commission of another sexual offense or offenses is not made inadmissible 

by Section 1101, if the evidence is not inadmissible pursuant to Section 352." (§ 1108, 

subd. (a).) 

 Under section 352, the trial court may "exclude evidence if its probative value is 

substantially outweighed by the probability that its admission will (a) necessitate undue 

consumption of time or (b) create substantial danger of undue prejudice, of confusing the 

issues, or of misleading the jury." (§ 352.) "The weighing process under Evidence Code 

section 352 'depends upon the trial court's consideration of the unique facts and issues of 

each case, rather than upon the mechanical application of automatic rules.' " 

(Miramontes, supra, 189 Cal.App.4th at p. 1097.) When considering whether to exclude 

evidence of another sexual offense under section 352, "trial judges must consider such 

factors as its nature, relevance, and possible remoteness, the degree of certainty of its 

commission and the likelihood of confusing, misleading, or distracting the jurors from 

their main inquiry, its similarity to the charged offense, its likely prejudicial impact on 

the jurors, the burden on the defendant in defending against the uncharged offense, and 

the availability of less prejudicial alternatives to its outright admission, such as admitting 

some but not all of the defendant's other sex offenses, or excluding irrelevant though 

inflammatory details surrounding the offense." (People v. Falsetta (1999) 21 Cal.4th 

903, 917.) "[T]he probative value of 'other crimes' evidence is increased by the relative 

similarity between the charged and uncharged offenses, the close proximity in time of the 
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offenses, and the independent sources of evidence (the victims) in each offense . . . ." (Id. 

at p. 917.) Further, "the prejudicial impact of the evidence is reduced if the uncharged 

offenses resulted in actual convictions and a prison term, ensuring that the jury would not 

be tempted to convict the defendant simply to punish him for the other offenses, and that 

the jury's attention would not be diverted by having to make a separate determination 

whether defendant committed the other offenses." (Ibid.) In evaluating whether to admit 

evidence of other sexual offenses, the court should consider " 'whether "[t]he testimony 

describing defendant's uncharged acts . . . was no stronger and no more inflammatory 

than the testimony concerning the charged offenses." ' " (Miramontes, 189 Cal.App.4th 

at p. 1097.) 

 On appeal, a trial court's ruling under section 1108 is subject to review for abuse 

of discretion. (People v. Loy (2011) 52 Cal.4th 46, 61; People v. Dejourney (2011) 192 

Cal.App.4th 1091, 1104; Miramontes, supra, 189 Cal.App.4th at p. 1098.) We will not 

find an abuse of discretion in admitting evidence under section 1108 unless the court's 

ruling " ' "falls outside the bounds of reason" ' " and the court has exercised its discretion 

in an arbitrary, capricious or patently absurd manner that has resulted in a miscarriage of 

justice. (Miramontes, supra, 189 Cal.App.4th at p. 1098; People v. Lewis (2009) 46 

Cal.4th 1255, 1286.) 

B. Prior Uncharged Sexual Acts with Angelo

 Jessee maintains the evidence of his sexual misconduct with Angelo was 

insufficiently probative or unduly prejudicial under section 352. Relying on factors 
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discussed in People v. Harris (1998) 60 Cal.App.4th 727, he argues that the prior 

uncharged acts were at least as inflammatory as those against A. He argues that evidence 

of his uncharged acts had a high risk of causing the jury to punish him for them in the 

present case; that the prior misconduct, which occurred over 25 years previously in 1979, 

was remote; the prior misconduct was too dissimilar to the acts against A. to have any 

probative value; and the evidence had no tendency to show Jessee had a propensity for 

committing the type of sex crime charged in the present case absent expert testimony, 

which was not offered. 

 Regarding the similarity of the acts, the court in People v. Loy, supra, 52 Cal.4th 

46 explained: " 'In enacting . . . section 1108, the Legislature decided evidence of 

uncharged sexual offenses is so uniquely probative in sex crimes prosecutions it is 

presumed admissible without regard to the limitations of . . . section 1101.' [Citation.] 

. . . '[T]he charged and uncharged crimes need not be sufficiently similar that evidence of 

the latter would be admissible under . . . section 1101, otherwise . . . section 1108 would 

serve no purpose. It is enough the charged and uncharged offenses are sex offenses as 

defined in section 1108.' " (Loy, at p. 63, quoting People v. Frazier (2001) 89 

Cal.App.4th 30, 40-41; see also Miramontes, supra, 189 Cal.App.4th at p. 1099.) The 

similarity of the acts, however, are relevant to the trial court's exercise of discretion. 

(Loy, at p. 63.) 

 Here, while Jessee's acts against Angelo may not have been sufficiently similar to 

his acts against A. to be admissible under section 1101, there are nevertheless some 

similarities. The acts were committed against relatives: his brother and niece, and Jessee 
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took advantage of the victims at convenient times while they were isolated from others; 

Angelo in a bedroom and A. when he was babysitting her and no one was home. Both 

victims were young, prepubescent children at the time. Though we acknowledge some 

significant differences in the circumstances and acts against Angelo and A., we cannot 

say admission of Jessee's acts against Angelo is arbitrary, patently absurd, or otherwise a 

manifest abuse of the trial court's discretion. 

 Nor did the trial court err by concluding the acts against then six-year-old Angelo, 

alleged forced oral copulation,2 were no more inflammatory than the forcible sodomy on 

A., who was 10 years old at the time the offenses took place. We disagree the facts of 

Jessee's actions against Angelo were so inflammatory or prejudicial as to preclude their 

admission in this case on the issue of his propensity to commit such acts. None of the 

prior acts involved extreme violence or severe injuries as did the defendant's prior 

conduct in People v. Harris, supra, 60 Cal.App.4th 727, on which Jessee relies. 

 Further, the People spent minimal time addressing Jessee's prior act against 

Angelo; it was introduced by two short questions to Angelo without any inflammatory 

details beyond the act3 and via Jessee's admissions over the course of approximately 

 

2 The People maintain that the evidence did not show Jessee used force to 

accomplish the oral copulation against Angelo, contrasting those acts with the forcible 

sodomy of A. Whether or not the acts against Angelo were forced, we nevertheless 

would not find them to be more inflammatory than Jessee's act of removing A.'s clothing, 

forcing her face down on the bed, and sodomizing her while she pleaded for him to stop. 

3 "[Prosecutor:] Sir, when you were a six-year-old boy, did the defendant ever 

commit any sexual acts on you? [¶] [Angelo:] Yes. [Prosecutor:] What were they, sir? 

[Angelo:] He made me perform oral on him." 
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three and a half pages of a 25-page transcription of his interview with Detective Botsford. 

Jessee's counsel then expanded on the incident in cross-examination of both Angelo and 

his redirect examination of Jessee's pastor, asking Angelo if he discovered the abuse by 

Jessee through counseling and asking Jessee's pastor if he believed Jessee was giving 

honest answers when he admitted to those acts during his police interview. 

 As for the passage of time since the acts, there are no specific time limits 

establishing when a prior offense is so remote as to be inadmissible (People v. Pierce 

(2002) 104 Cal.App.4th 893, 900), and appellate courts have upheld the admission of 

prior offenses committed 20 to 30 years before the offenses at issue. (People v. Spector

(2011) 194 Cal.App.4th 1335, 1388-1389 [prior gun assaults, including 28-year-old 

assault, properly admitted, particularly where similar assaults had recurred over a lengthy 

period of time]; People v. Branch (2001) 91 Cal.App.4th 274, 284 [30-year-old sex 

offense properly admitted]; People v. Pierce, at p. 900 [23-year-old rape conviction]; 

People v. Soto (1998) 64 Cal.App.4th 966, 977-978, 991-992 [21- to 30-year old crimes]; 

People v. Waples (2000) 79 Cal.App.4th 1389, 1393, 1395 [18- to 30-year-old offenses 

properly admitted].) That Jessee committed other sex offenses against F. approximately 

11 years later when he was 23 years old, adds probative value to the uncharged offenses 

against Angelo. (Spector, at p. 1389.) 

 We agree there was a risk the jury would be tempted to convict Jessee of the 

current charges to assure he was punished for the prior uncharged offense. (See People 

v. Branch, supra, 91 Cal.App.4th at p. 284; People v. Frazier, supra, 89 Cal.App.4th at 
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p. 42.) But the trial court gave the jury instructions that focused its attention on the 

current charges and advised it about the limited way in which it could consider the 

evidence of the uncharged assault on Angelo in relation to those charges.4 We conclude 

those instructions "counterbalanced" that risk. (Frazier, at p. 42; see also Miramontes, 

supra, 189 Cal.App.4th at p. 1103 [instructing jury on limited purpose of evidence of 

prior uncharged sex crimes reduced possibility of jury confusion].) 

 This court has explained that " ' "[t]he 'prejudice' referred to in Evidence Code 

section 352 applies to evidence which uniquely tends to evoke an emotional bias against 

defendant as an individual and which has very little effect on the issues. In applying 

section 352, 'prejudicial' is not synonymous with 'damaging.' " ' " (Miramontes, supra,

189 Cal.App.4th at p. 1098; People v. Dejourney, supra, 192 Cal.App.4th at p. 1105; see 

also People v. Karis (1988) 46 Cal.3d 612, 638.) "The code speaks in terms of undue 

prejudice" and thus evidence should be excluded as unduly prejudicial " 'when it is of 

such nature as to inflame the emotions of the jury, motivating them to use the 

information, not to logically evaluate the point upon which it is relevant, but to reward or 

 

4 The court instructed the jury with CALCRIM No. 1191, which told the jury: (1) it 

could consider the evidence of uncharged sex offenses only if the People proved by a 

preponderance of the evidence that Jessee committed them; (2) if the People did not meet 

that burden, it was to disregard the evidence entirely; (3) if the jury decided Jessee 

committed the uncharged sex offenses, it could consider that evidence to help it decide 

whether he committed aggravated sexual assault of a child and lewd acts upon a child as 

charged in the current case; and (4) evidence of other uncharged sexual offenses was one 

factor to be weighed "together with all the other evidence" and was not sufficient by itself 

to prove his guilt of the current charges. The jury was told to consider the instructions as 

a whole, and was instructed in detail on the reasonable doubt standard. (Accord, People 

v. Loy, supra, 52 Cal.4th at p. 75.) We presume the jury understood and followed the 

court's instructions. (People v. Lindberg (2008) 45 Cal.4th 1, 26.) 
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punish one side because of the jurors' emotional reaction.' " (People v. Branch, supra, 91 

Cal.App.4th at p. 286.) 

 Here, we cannot say Jessee sufficiently demonstrated that the evidence of the 

uncharged acts against Angelo would unduly prejudice him with the jury, or that the 

prejudice resulting would substantially outweigh the probative value of the evidence for 

purposes of section 1108. The acts are "extremely relevant" to his charged offenses 

(People v. Van Winkle (1999) 75 Cal.App.4th 133, 141), particularly where Jessee tried to 

paint A. as mistaken or a liar. (People v. Waples, supra, 79 Cal.App.4th 1395 [propensity 

evidence highly relevant to dispute an attempt to paint current victims of sex offenses as 

liars or mistaken in their claims of molestation].) Under the relevant standards, and 

viewing the evidence in the light most favorable to the trial court's ruling (see People v. 

Carter (2005) 36 Cal.4th 1114, 1148), we cannot conclude the court's decision to admit 

Angelo's testimony as to defendant's prior acts was arbitrary, capricious, manifestly 

absurd, or exceeded the bounds of reason. (People v. Mullens (2004) 119 Cal.App.4th 

648, 658.) 

 Thus, we perceive no miscarriage of justice in the admission of the prior act 

evidence as to Angelo under section 1108 to prove Jessee's propensity to commit the 

charged offenses. (People v. Dejourney, supra, 192 Cal.App.4th at p. 1105.) Even if we 

were to reach a different conclusion that an abuse of discretion occurred, it would be 

harmless error. Jessee maintains A.'s credibility was weak in view of the fact she had 

waited four years to report the misconduct; neither her father or mother noticed any signs 

of abuse; A. initially denied any abuse and only reported it to a vice principal after 
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getting into a fight at school; that in Jessee's prior trial on the charges, the jury was 

unable to reach a verdict resulting in a mistrial; and that the trial presented a close 

credibility call as reflected by the jury's request for a readback of A.'s testimony. He 

claims his credibility was stronger, and "bolster[ed]" by evidence of his religious 

transformation as well as the "requirement of honesty that is a prominent component of 

his faith." The record shows that the jury not only asked for a readback of A.'s testimony 

but also the recording of Jessee's interview with Detective Botsford. Contrary to Jessee's 

argument, we perceive from the jury's readback that it carefully reviewed the evidence to 

determine whether it presented a serious question concerning A.'s credibility and any 

reasonable doubt as to Jessee's guilt. Further, Jessee admitted that at the time of the 

offenses against A., he was still an alcoholic and smoked marijuana, often drinking four 

or five times a week and sometimes more, and drank to the point of intoxication. He 

admitted he maintained an addiction to pornography, some of which involved women 

dressed as young girls. He also admitted his inhibitions were lowered when he drank. 

The jury plainly determined A. to be credible and Jessee was not, and having reviewed 

A.'s testimony, the testimony of her father and mother, and the testimony of Detective 

Botsford, we conclude it is not reasonably probable an outcome more favorable to Jessee 

would have resulted absent any presumed error. (People v. Watson (1956) 46 Cal.2d 818, 

836.) 

C. Prior Offenses Against F.

 We likewise perceive no abuse of discretion in the court's admission of the 

evidence pertaining to Jessee's molestation of F. The jury learned that Jessee had pleaded 
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guilty in Oregon to a crime for his conduct with F., had served five months in jail, was on 

probation for three years, and had been required to register as a sex offender, though he 

failed to meet that requirement for several years. (Accord, People v. Loy, supra, 52 

Cal.4th at p. 61 [defendant's conviction of prior assaults, which had been established and 

was certain, "strongly, support[ed] their admission" under sections 1108 and 352].) As in 

Loy, Jessee thus "bore no new burden of defending against the charges," and "[t]he jury 

would not be tempted to convict him of the charged crime to punish him for the earlier 

crime." (Loy, at p. 61; see also People v. Lewis, supra, 46 Cal.4th at p. 1287.) 

"Additionally, the conviction[] meant there was little danger of confusing the issues or 

requiring an inefficient minitrial to determine defendant's guilt of the previous crimes." 

(Loy, at p. 61.) 

 Further, the evidence regarding Jessee's offenses against F. bore some similarity to 

the present offenses against A., in that both offenses involved young girls, F. at age 13, 

and A. at age 10; both involved the fondling of their breasts, sodomy, the use of force or, 

at the very least, compulsion; and as to both, Jessee told the girls to keep the acts secret. 

As the People point out, F.'s testimony was brief; it took less than a half an hour of about 

a day and a half of trial testimony, and spanned only about 14 pages of the trial transcript. 

Under all of the circumstances, we cannot say the prejudicial factors outweighed the 

probative value of this evidence, and conclude the trial court did not act arbitrarily or 

irrationally in admitting it. 

II. Admission of Evidence of Jessee's Relationship with F. Under Section 1101
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 Jessee further contends the trial court prejudicially erred by admitting the evidence 

as to F. under section 1101, subdivision (b).5 Specifically, he maintains the evidence as 

to F.—which, as he characterizes it, established a "consensual" relationship with a "postpubescent teenager"—was not sufficiently similar to the charged offenses to permit an 

inference of intent, and thus cannot support a rational inference he harbored the same 

intent in each situation. Jessee also points out his defense was not that he lacked the 

requisite lewd intent, but that he did not touch A. at all; that the incidents never occurred. 

Thus, he argues, the evidence lacked any probative value on any issue in the case. 

Finally, Jessee argues any possible slight probative value was outweighed by the risk of 

prejudice. 

 Because we have concluded the trial court did not err in finding the evidence as to 

F. relevant and admissible under section 1108, we need not discuss its admissibility under 

section 1101. (People v. Soto, supra, 64 Cal.App.4th at pp. 983-984, 992; see, e.g., 

People v. Lewis, supra, 46 Cal.4th at p. 1288 [defendant's failure to establish an abuse of 

 

5 Under section 1101, subdivision (b), " '[e]vidence of uncharged crimes is 

admissible to prove identity, common design or plan, or intent only if the charged and 

uncharged crimes are sufficiently similar to support a rational inference of identity, 

common design or plan, or intent.' " (People v. Carter, supra, 36 Cal.4th at p. 1147; see 

also People v. Walker (2006) 139 Cal.App.4th 782, 795-796.) "[T]hat a defendant 

previously committed a similar crime can be circumstantial evidence tending to prove his 

identity, intent, and motive in the present crime. Like other circumstantial evidence, 

admissibility depends on the materiality of the fact sought to be proved, the tendency of 

the prior crime to prove the material fact, and the existence vel non of some other rule 

requiring exclusion." (People v. Roldan (2005) 35 Cal.4th 646, 705, disapproved on 

other grounds as stated in People v. Doolin (2009) 45 Cal.4th 390, 421 & fn. 22.) "When 

a defendant pleads not guilty, he or she places all issues in dispute, and thus the 

perpetrator's identity, intent and motive are all material facts." (People v. Walker, at p. 

796, citing Roldan, at pp. 705-706.) 
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discretion in admitting evidence prior assault under section 1101 rendered irrelevant the 

question of whether all of that evidence was admissible under section 1108].) 

Nevertheless, our analysis as to the similarities between the acts against F. and those 

against A. is sufficient to establish the propriety of their admission under section 1101, 

subdivision (b), particularly as to common plan and scheme. " 'To establish the existence 

of a common design or plan, the common features must indicate the existence of a plan 

rather than a series of similar spontaneous acts, but the plan thus revealed need not be 

distinctive or unusual. [Citation.] '[A] common scheme or plan focuses on the manner in 

which the prior misconduct and the current crimes were committed, i.e., whether the 

defendant committed similar distinctive acts of misconduct against similar victims under 

similar circumstances.' " (People v. Walker, supra, 139 Cal.App.4th at p. 803.) It is of 

no moment that the court declined to admit the evidence on the intermediate fact of 

common scheme or plan. " 'If a judgment rests on admissible evidence it will not be 

reversed because the trial court admitted that evidence upon a different theory, a mistaken 

theory, or one not raised below.' " (People v. Blacksher (2011) 52 Cal.4th 769, 806, fn. 

21.) 

 Though Jessee's intent with respect to the offenses against A. may not have been 

disputed and F.'s testimony not necessarily probative on that particular issue, the fact that 

F.'s testimony was highly probative on Jessee's propensity, common design or plan, and 

the absence of mistake or accident, renders nonprejudicial its admission for the purpose 

of proving intent. (Accord, People v. Waples, supra, 79 Cal.App.4th at pp. 1395-1396.) 
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DISPOSITION 

 The judgment is affirmed. 

O'ROURKE, J. 

WE CONCUR: 

McDONALD, Acting P. J. 

AARON, J.