explaining that fact finders might "gain greater insight" from audio-visual devices
How later courts described this case
- explaining that fact finders might "gain greater insight" from audio-visual devices
- "Videotaped confessions ... are regularly admitted to show the jury the demean- or of a person and the circumstances under which confessions are made."
- statute permitting pre-mortem photo of vie-tim in homicide trials did not strip trial court of authority to exclude such evidence, when appropriate, under other provisions of the Evidence Code
- statute permitting pre-mortem photo of victim in homicide trials did not strip trial court of authority to exclude such evidence, when appropriate, under other provisions of the Evidence Code
Written by the judges who cited it.
The opinion
LEWIS, Judge,
Specially Concurs.
¶ 11 agree with the State that parts of the testimony by the defendant’s mother should have been redacted; however, I concur with the opinion that prohibiting the defendant from playing the videotaped testimony to the jury denied the defendant relevant mitigating evidence.