California, United States of America
The following excerpt is from People v. Bradford, B260886 (Cal. App. 2017):
The admissibility of evidence that a third party other than the defendant committed the charged crime turns on two factors: (1) whether the evidence is "'capable of raising a reasonable doubt of defendant's guilt'" (People v. Vines (2011) 51 Cal.4th 830, 860, quoting People v. Hall (1986) 41 Cal.3d 826, 833 (Hall)); and (2) whether the probative value of such evidence is nevertheless substantially outweighed by danger of undue prejudice, of confusing the issues, or of misleading the jury (People
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