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P1400 In a tort action by a child alleging that in the course of treating him, defendant dentist choked him by putting his arm across his throat and shoved him against a wall, testimony by nine of the 45,000 former patients treated by defendant that defendant had restrained them, hit them, or held his hand over their mouths was not admissible as evidence of a common plan or habit, but was solely relevant to a character trait and therefore inadmissible under Evidence Code section 1101.CitationBOWEN v RYAN (Dental Discipline) 163 CA4 916 [See: EvC 1101, 1105, 352; Hinson v Clairemont 218 CA3 1110]
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