What is the current state of the law on unduly prejudicial evidence?
California, United States of America
The following excerpt is from People v. Carranza, G055902 (Cal. App. 2019):
The court did not abuse its discretion. Evidence is unduly prejudicial where it tends "to evoke an emotional bias against a party because of extraneous factors unrelated to the issues." (People v. Cortez (2016) 63 Cal.4th 101, 128.) Here, evidence that A.C. may have accused her father of physical abuse was tangential and, as the prosecutor indicated, would have resulted in a time consuming mini-trial.
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