State of Arizona v. Vincent Joseph Guarino

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• noting that unduly prejudicial evidence in the penalty phase may be precluded, even where it would otherwise be relevant
• stating that victim-impact and related evidence can be excluded at penalty phase where that evidence “is so unduly prejudicial that it renders the trial fundamentally unfair”
• “Taken together, A.R.S. §§ 13-751(G) and -752(G) permit jurors to hear evidence relating to circumstances of the crime and the defendant’s character.”
• “[W]hile evidence that makes a defendant look bad may be prejudicial in the eyes of jurors, it is not necessarily unfairly so.”
• looking to federal jurisprudence in conducting similar Rule 703 analysis

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).