Is there any case law where evidence of abuse was not excluded from a jury trial?
California, United States of America
The following excerpt is from People v. Baker, 10 Cal.5th 1044, 274 Cal.Rptr.3d 655, 480 P.3d 49 (Cal. 2021):
The issue is whether the trial court abused its " broad discretion " by not excluding some of this evidence as unduly prejudicial. ( People v. Loy (2011) 52 Cal.4th 46, 64, 127 Cal.Rptr.3d 679, 254 P.3d 980.) Defendant argues that evidence of spousal abuse is especially prejudicial, as is evidence of acts for which he had not been convicted and punished. But he does not argue that
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