Legal Question in Criminal Law in California

At trial the victim gets cross examined by the defendant's attorney about the changes in his/her statements and the jury decides what to believe.

I agree with Mr. Shapiro. If the victim's testimony is crucial to the case (it often isn't) and if the changes are both significant and hard to explain, then the prosecutor might drop the case. But that probably won't happen.

As for your statement that "there is very little evidence": testimony is a type of evidence. That's counterintuitive, but it's true. You're probably just thinking of physical evidence. But physical evidence is not required. Depending upon the charges, a jury may be able to convict based solely on testimony.

If you're the defendant in this case and you don't have a lawyer already, you should get one now.

Good luck.