Does exclusion of any evidence that benefits a criminal defendant violate the Fourteenth Amendment or the due process clause?

California, United States of America


The following excerpt is from People v. Reardon, 237 Cal.Rptr.3d 347, 26 Cal.App.5th 727 (Cal. App. 2018):

Defendant offers no analysis or authority for the proposition that exclusion of any evidence that benefits a criminal defendant violates the Fourteenth Amendment or the due process clause. The Attorney General heads a "No Prejudice" argument pointing out that the jury heard testimony from all the officers, defendant, defendant's passenger, and from the bystanders, and saw video that captured part of the struggle. In his reply brief, defendant cites authority for the correct proposition that ordinarily, the improper exclusion of evidence not amounting to a complete deprivation of a defense is measured under the state law standard of prejudice set forth in People v. Watson (1956) 56 Cal.2d 818, 836. (See

[237 Cal.Rptr.3d 358]

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