State v. Deleon, 645 A.2d 518, 230 Conn. 351 (Conn. 1994)

State v. Deleon, 645 A.2d 518, 230 Conn. 351 (Conn. 1994)

The state admitted into evidence a videotape of the crime scene, even though the videographer used the zoom lens and stepped over the victims body to show the jury what the defendant would have had to do to get to the safe. “This court has consistently held that photographic evidence is admissible where the photograph has a reasonable tendency to prove or disprove a material fact in issue or shed some light upon some material inquiry.... There is no requirement in this state that a potentially inflammatory photograph be essential to the state's case in order for it to be admissible; rather, the test for determining the admissibility of the challenged evidence is relevancy and not necessity.”

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