Cope v. Sevigny, 289 A.2d 682 (Me. 1972)
Regardless that the evidence reveals uncertainty as to whether the Thomas collar had been initially prescribed by a physician or had been used by the plaintiff on his own, and independently of whether there might have been a sufficient acknowledgement by an attending physician of its therapeutic benefit to plaintiff, [2] the admissibility into evidence of an object or article which testimony tends to make relevant as an evidentiary exhibit in the nature of 'demonstrative' or 'real' evidence, lies, essentially, in the discretion of the presiding Justice. While such discretion should generally be exercised liberally to admit relevant 'demonstrative' or 'real' evidence which tends to have probative value, in accordance with the general basis principle favoring the admissibility of evidence of probative force, there remains a large discretion invested in the presiding Justice to evaluate whether the probative benefits of allowing an object or article into evidence as an exhibit are fundamentally minimal or trivial or, even if substantial, are nevertheless overridden by other extraneous nonprobative factors.
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