13. Evidence Code 1101(b) creates an exception for the use of a defendant's past bad acts.True / False

14. For an officer to seize items that she sees in plain view, one of the requirements is that the officer must

immediately recognize the items as evidence or contraband. True /False

15. A man standing outside a 7 Eleven store sees a woman walk into the store, and then 30 seconds later the

man hears a gunshot, and the woman runs out of the store with a gun in her hand.The man looks

inside the store and see the clerk dead behind the counter with a gunshot wound.To the issue of

whether the woman shot the clerk, the man's statement is:

a.Direct Evidence b. Circumstantial evidence

16. A house is burglarized. A CSI technician finds a fingerprint on the mirror inside a jewelry box. The fingerprint is checked in the system and belongs to a man named Joe Burglar. The woman of the house

doesn't know Joe Burglar. To the issue of whether Mr. Burglar is the burglar, the fingerprint is:

a.Direct Evidence b. Circumstantial evidence

17. A man on trial for robbery has a rape prior. Can the rape prior be used to help prove he did the robbery? Yes / No

18. A woman on trial for grand theft has two priors for grand theft where she committed the crime with the

same modus operandi. Does the law allow the DA to introduce the facts of the prior grand thefts

to help prove the new case? Yes/ No

19. A video shows a robbery, but not the identity of the robber. To the issue of whether a robbery occurred,

the video is:

a.Direct Evidence b. Circumstantial evidence

20. A woman is sexually assaulted. She tells the cops that she scratched her attacker's face. CSI takes

scrapings from under her fingernails. The scraping are analyzed and DHA belonging to a man

the victim doesn't know is identified. To the issue of whether the man is the rapist, the DNA under

the victim's fingernails is:

a.Direct Evidence b. Circumstantial Evidence