Does the error of admitting evidence in violation of the secondary evidence rule require reversal?

California, United States of America


The following excerpt is from People v. Snow, F072851 (Cal. App. 2017):

The erroneous admission of evidence in violation of the secondary evidence rule does not require reversal unless a timely objection to exclude the evidence appears on the record, exclusion should have resulted from the objection stated, and the error resulted in a miscarriage of justice. ( 353.) An error is harmless unless it is "reasonably probable that a result more favorable to the appealing party would have been reached in the absence of the error." (People v. Watson (1956) 46 Cal.2d 818, 836 (Watson).)

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