CALIFORNIA EVIDENCE: CIVIL AND CRIMINAL
...Relevance
......Demonstrative Evidence
.........In General
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Evidence: Things presented to senses to prove/disprove fact.

Demonstrative evidence illustrates testimony.

Photos of V's injuries, expert testimony about her burns, and a tape of her screams in the ambulance relevant to prove intent to inflict extreme pain, required for murder by torture and torture-murder special circumstance.

Court has broad discretion re admissibility of photos and exhibits such as coroner's plastic head exhibit with knitting needles marking bullets' trajectory.

Demonstrative evidence is evidence cognizable to the senses.

Demonstrative or "real" evidence which corroborates V's testimony and description of items proper.

Where DA reconstructed bed to show W could see through it, admission of evid. depended on establishing requisite foundational, preliminary facts.