How will the courts review a trial court's decision to exclude evidence for abuse of abuse of power?

California, United States of America


The following excerpt is from People v. Ayala, B268699 (Cal. App. 2018):

"We review a trial court's decision to exclude evidence for abuse of discretion" and will not disturb that decision " 'except on a showing [that] the trial court exercised its discretion in an arbitrary, capricious, or patently absurd manner that resulted in a manifest miscarriage of justice.' " (People v. Peoples (2016) 62 Cal.4th 718, 757.) In most cases, the reviewing court will uphold the exercise of the trial court's discretion even if it determines that another court might have ruled differently. (People v. Clair (1992) 2 Cal.4th 629, 655; People v. Ardoin (2011) 196 Cal.App.4th 102, 121.) We find no abuse of the trial court's discretion in the present case.

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