Commonwealth v. Schroth

How courts have described this case

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• reiterating the same general rule and concluding it was not error to show jury a crime scene diagram that indicated a “blood stain” given the accompanying testimony by the person who created the diagram and the curative instructions
• view of naked back of decedent without face, blood or wounds visible held not inflammatory
• “A lay witness may testify that a certain substance appeared to be blood without having to subject the substance to chemical analysis
• demonstrative evidence “may be admitted so long as it has relevance and can assist the jury’s understanding of the facts of the case before it”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).