What is the proper standard for review of evidentiary error?
California, United States of America
The following excerpt is from People v. Baumgartner, D075102 (Cal. App. 2019):
"The proper standard for review of . . . evidentiary error. . . is that for state law error under People v. Watson (1956) 46 Cal.2d 818, 836 (whether 'it is reasonably
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probable that a result more favorable to [defendant] would have been reached in the absence of the error')." (People v. Bacon (2010) 50 Cal.4th 1082, 1104.)
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