PEOPLE v. QUINTANILLA

No. A104009.

33 Cal.Rptr.3d 782 (2005)

132 Cal.App.4th 572

The PEOPLE, Plaintiff and Respondent, v. Nicolas QUINTANILLA, Defendant and Appellant.

Court of Appeals of California, First District, Division Three.

September 6, 2005.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Heather MacKay, by appointment of the Court under the First District Appellate Project's Assisted Case System, for Appellant.

Bill Lockyer, Attorney General of the State of California; Robert R. Anderson, Chief Assistant Attorney General; Gerald A. Engler, Senior Assistant Attorney General; Martin S. Kaye, Supervising Deputy Attorney General; Laurence K. Sullivan, Supervising Deputy Attorney General, for Respondent.


Certified for Partial Publication.*

PARRILLI, J.

In this case, a defendant challenges instructions permitting the jury to consider charged domestic violence offenses as evidence of criminal propensity in connection with other domestic violence charges joined for trial. In the published part of our opinion, we hold such instructions are improper, but amounted to harmless error in this case.

After a jury trial, Nicolas Quintanilla...

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