California, United States of America
The following excerpt is from People v. Jackson, B292315 (Cal. App. 2021):
We review the trial court's decision to exclude evidence for abuse of discretion. (People v. Peoples (2016) 62 Cal.4th 718, 745.) "The decision to exclude evidence 'will not be disturbed 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 [citation].' [Citation.]" (Ibid.) Appellant has not made that showing here. The court excluded the evidence at various points as lacking foundation, irrelevant, unduly time-consuming, and potentially confusing. So long as one of those bases was valid, we need not evaluate every alternative rationale for excluding the evidence.
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