What is the test for admitting a photograph of the victim's mother as a witness in a civil case?
California, United States of America
The following excerpt is from People v. Aviles, G054300 (Cal. App. 2018):
prejudicial" where it "was brief and factual, and the record does not reflect that either witness made any emotional outbursts"]; People v. Wash (1993) 6 Cal.4th 215, 247 [no reasonable probability of prejudice where "identification testimony of the relatives was factual and brief" and "[t]here were no emotional outbursts"].)
The trial court did not abuse its discretion in admitting the victim's photograph and the mother's testimony.
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