California, United States of America
The following excerpt is from People v. Otis, F075975 (Cal. App. 2019):
Evidence Code section 1109 provides (subject to certain exceptions not applicable here) that in a criminal domestic violence action, evidence of the defendant's commission of other domestic violence is not inadmissible character evidence under section 1101 if such evidence is not inadmissible pursuant to section 352. (Evid. Code, 1109, subd. (a).) Section 352 affords the trial court discretion to exclude evidence if its probative value is "substantially outweighed by the probability that its admission will (a) necessitate undue consumption of time or (b) create substantial danger of undue prejudice, of confusing the issues, or of misleading the jury." ( 352.) "[T]he court's exercise of discretion will not be disturbed on appeal except upon a showing that it was exercised in an arbitrary, capricious or patently absurd manner that resulted in a manifest miscarriage of justice." (People v. Brown (2011) 192 Cal.App.4th 1222, 1233.)
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