State v. Boeglin

How courts have described this case

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• holding that the admission of a close-up photograph depicting gruesome neck wounds suffered by the victim was proper to “illustrate, clarify, and corroborate the testimony of witnesses”
• holding that a defendant is not entitled to complain on appeal after he has 14 made a tactical decision not to seek a step-down instruction
• holding that it was not an abuse of discretion to admit gruesome photograph because the danger of unfair prejudice was not, as a matter of law, greater than the probative value of the evidence
• holding that the admission of a close-up photograph depicting gruesome neck wounds suffered by the victim was proper to “illustrate, clarify, and corroborate the testimony of witnesses”
• noting that the trial court may, “within its sound discretion, exclude reasonably relevant evidence on the ground that its probative value is substantially outweighed by the dangers of unfair prejudice”
• explaining that where a defendant fails to preserve an objection to jury instructions at trial, the Court may still grant relief in cases of fundamental error

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).