What is the test for admitting or excluding evidence under California Evidence Code section 352?

California, United States of America


The following excerpt is from People v. Green, E071894 (Cal. App. 2020):

substantial danger of undue prejudice, of confusing the issues, or of misleading the jury." (People v. Cole (2004) 33 Cal.4th 1158, 1195.) Because the decision to admit or exclude evidence under Evidence Code section 352 is committed to the trial court's discretion, we will not disturb a trial court's exercise of that discretion "'"except on a showing the trial court exercised its discretion in an arbitrary, capricious, or patently absurd manner that resulted in a manifest miscarriage of justice."'" (Uspenskaya v. Meline (2015) 241 Cal.App.4th 996, 1000-1001.)

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