What is the scope of victim impact evidence at a murder trial?
California, United States of America
The following excerpt is from People v. Williams, 192 Cal.Rptr.3d 266, 355 P.3d 444, 61 Cal.4th 1244 (Cal. 2015):
Defendant's contends that victim impact evidence should be limited to testimony that describes the impact on family members present at the scene or immediately thereafter, and to those effects known or reasonably knowable to defendant at the time of the murder. We have previously rejected these arguments. (People v. Pollock, supra, 32 Cal.4th at p. 1183, 13 Cal.Rptr.3d 34, 89 P.3d 353.) So too have we
[61 Cal.4th 1286]
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