showed an accused rapist specifically preyed on women when he knew they were in a weakened or compromised state. that involved some really ugly allegations of a rapist who preyed on a woman after she had a blood transfusion, was weakened, and basically, the judges said that while we don t usually allow this other evidence, here it goes to your method, your pattern. the only other case i ll show you goes a little bit of different direction. commonwealth v. mason, a judge allowed an incident of that a defendant preyed on his two teenage nieced, but refused to admit accusations that he also preyed on a older forest sister. look, we can all agree that if true, preying on this other person is a terrible crime. what they re going to say is that judge didn t allow that kind of evidence in, because it wasn t the issue the jury was supposed to decide. and i can tell you, as you know, in sex crimes cases, these are big battles, because we also see women accusers consistently denigrated and impug