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RAYE, J.
During the jury trial of Steven Robert Diaz, who is mentally retarded, the trial court admitted evidence that he sexually assaulted a young woman 12 years earlier. That same year he had been adjudged incompetent to stand trial and was committed to a state mental hospital. Defendant raises the now familiar litany of constitutional challenges to the admissibility of uncharged prior sexual...
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