OPINION
BEDSWORTH, Acting P.J.
To ensure the fairness of criminal trials, the law provides that evidence of the defendant's poverty is generally inadmissible. In this case, however, the prosecution introduced a considerable amount of evidence showing Eva Carrillo was in difficult financial straits when she allegedly aided and abetted her boyfriend in a robbery. Her poverty was used to provide convincing harmony to the factual melody of the crime. The result...
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