P. v. Jones
Defendants contentions are numerous but meritless. The charges were properly joined because they are connected crimes of the same class. The lewd act convictions are sufficiently supported by victim testimony that defendant orchestrated a strip poker game with nine, 11, and 12-year-old boys. Expert testimony of Child Sexual Assault Accommodation Syndrome (CSAAS) and victim photographs were permissibly admitted. Evidence of the victims prior sexual activity was permissibly excluded. The court properly instructed the jury on adoptive admissions and constructive touching; it properly declined to instruct the jury on accomplice testimony and battery as a lesser included offense to three lewd act counts. The court permissibly remanded defendant into custody during the trial due to his misconduct and correctly declined to strike the multiple victim allegations. And defendant was not prejudiced by being bound over on three counts for which he was not convicted, or because the jurors failed to return an extra set of unused verdict forms.
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