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The judge wrote, 'Ms. Carroll offers the evidence to show that Mr. Trump has a propensity for such behavior.'

Not taking a side either way, but I find it weird that sometimes judges will allow prior acts in, and other times rule them out as prejudicial.

I watch those murder shows as are common on ID, 48 Hours, HLN and other channels. The number of times the prosecutors can't introduce evidence that the guy has been convicted four times before for rape, while on trial for another rape, astounds me.

Yes, I understand that he's only on trial for the one - and that telling jurors 'he's done this a bunch of times' will jaundice their view, but then why is it OK in other cases like this?

[Anyone who knows me knows I am not trying to build a defense for the orange buffoon, I just can't figure out why it's sometimes OK and sometimes not.]

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