People v. Vasher’s Empirical Analysis

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4 state decisions

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1. “In this context, prejudice means more than simply damage to the opponent's cause. A party's case is always damaged by evidence that the facts are contrary to his contentions, but that cannot be grounds for exclusion. What is meant here is an undue tendency to move the tribunal to decide on an improper basis, commonly, though not always, an emotional one. Evidence presents the danger of unfair prejudice when it threatens the fundamental goals of MRE 403: accuracy and fairness. Gold, Federal Rule of Evidence 403 : Observations on the nature of unfairly prejudicial evidence , 58 Wash.L.R. 497 (1983). The perceived danger here is that the jury would decide that this evidence is more probative of a fact than it actually is.”

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   e.g. Waknin v. Chamberlain