Is prior domestic violence prejudicial in a criminal case?
California, United States of America
The following excerpt is from People v. Cabada, 2d Crim. No. B255599 (Cal. App. 2015):
Prior domestic violence is unduly prejudicial under Evidence Code section 352 only if it uniquely tends to evoke an emotional bias against the defendant as an individual and has very little effect on the issues.3 (People v. Johnson, supra, 185
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