State v. Philbrick, 43 A.2d 844 (Me. 1981)
The persuasive power on juries of in-court demonstrative evidence is widely conceded. See McCormick on Evidence ยง 212 (2d ed. 1972) ("seeing is believing"). A trial court should exercise its discretion carefully before permitting such demonstrations because even if no essentially emotional response is likely to result, demonstrative evidence may convey an impression of objective reality to the trier. Thus, the courts are frequently sensitive to the objection that the evidence is "misleading" and zealous to insure that there is no misleading differential between objective things offered at trial and the same or different objective things as they existed at the time of the events or occurrences in litigation.
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