P. v. Ramirez CA4/3
A jury convicted defendant Jorge Luis Ramirez of more than a dozen sex offenses he committed against his two young stepdaughters over a five-year period, as well as one count each of possessing child pornography and using a minor to record child pornography. A number of photographs recovered from his cell phone depicted one of his stepdaughters orally copulating an adult male. On appeal, he contends he is entitled to a new trial because the court instructed the jury it could consider his commission of certain charged offenses as proving he has a propensity to commit sex offenses. (See CALCRIM No. 1191.) We cannot agree. His arguments have previously been rejected by our Supreme Court in People v. Villatoro (2012) 54 Cal.4th 1152 (Villatoro). Additionally, we reject his further contentions that the trial court erred in instructing the jury with a modified version of CALCRIM No. 375 (evidence of uncharged offenses), and his sentence, which includes over 100 years in prison, constit
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