2.11 Other Crimes, Wrongs or Acts of Defendant is a legal term used in civil lawsuits to describe any crimes, wrongs, or acts committed by the defendant that are related to the subject of the lawsuit. This term is used to describe intentional or negligent conduct by the defendant that leads to a harm or damages to the plaintiff. Examples of 2.11 Other Crimes, Wrongs or Acts of Defendant include negligence, fraud, breach of contract, gross negligence, and assault.
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Sample Jury Instructions from the 9th Circuit Federal Court of Appeals. http://www3.ce9.uscourts.gov/jury-instructions/
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Federal Rule 404(2) allows a defendant in a criminal case to introduce evidence of his own ?pertinent character trait,? which allows criminal defendants to bring witnesses as to good character. A pertinent trait is a characteristic that relates to either the crime or a defense to the crime.
(a) Character Evidence. (1) Prohibited Uses. Evidence of a person's character or character trait is not admissible to prove that on a particular occasion the person acted in ance with the character or trait.
Evidence of a crime, wrong, or other act is not admissible to prove a person's character in order to show that on a particular occasion the person acted in ance with the character.
Character evidence is not admissible to prove conduct in civil cases. For example, a defendant cannot offer the testimony of friends (or her own testimony) that she is usually a very careful driver as circumstantial evidence she was probably driving carefully and not negligently on the day of an accident.
Typically, other-acts evidence is admitted as proof of one of four es- sential elements: (1) to show that the accused was the actor (identity issue); (2) to show that the accused pos- sessed the requisite mental state (mens rea issue); (3) to show that a crime was committed (actus reus or corpus delicti issue); and (4)
Federal Rule of Evidence 404(b) provides that prior act evidence ?is not admissible to prove the character of a person in order to show action in conformity therewith.? Evidence of prior bad acts usually cannot be admitted at trial to show the defendant's propensity to commit crimes similar to the offense in question.
Evidence Code 1101 Explained ?evidence of someone's character or a trait of their character, whether in the form of an opinion, evidence of reputation, or evidence of specific instances of their conduct, is inadmissible when offered to prove their conduct on a specified occasion.?
This rule provides that evidence of other crimes, wrongs, or acts is not admissible to prove character but may be admissible for other specified purposes such as proof of motive.