What is the test for causing undue prejudice in a criminal case?
California, United States of America
The following excerpt is from People v. Allen, B250321 (Cal. App. 2015):
Cal.4th at p. 404.) Undue prejudice may result from an "increased danger that the jury [would be] inclined to punish defendant for the uncharged offenses, regardless whether it considered him guilty of the charged offenses." (Id. at p. 405.) We review the ruling under the deferential abuse of discretion standard and reverse only if it was arbitrary, whimsical, or capricious as a matter of law. (People v. Robertson (2012) 208 Cal.App.4th 965, 991.)
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