What is the test for admitting into evidence an autopsy photograph of a patient as evidence in a medical malpractice case?

Defendant contends the court erred. The admission into evidence of photographs lies within the trial court's discretion and will not be disturbed absent an abuse of that discretion. (People v. Gonzales (2012) 54 Cal.4th 1234, 1271-1272.) Here, the trial court carefully exercised its discretion. We have reviewed the photographs and find no abuse of that discretion. As the court found, they are not particularly gruesome, as autopsy photographs go. In any event, because

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