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Evidence Fall 2022
Resource 2 . 2 . 5
18 minutes

Mazella v. Beals

Prof. Nina Chernoff

This opinion was authored by Judge Jenny Rivera, former CUNY professor (1997-2013), clerk to Justice Sotomayor, and now judge on the New York Court of Appeals.

The case does a nice job of digging in on a Rule 403-style analysis of the probative value and risk of prejudice of a piece of evidence.  

Feel free to skim the facts (highlighted) – all you need to know is that the wife of a deceased man sued the doctor who had been treating her husband, alleging that the doctor failed to properly care for her husband and that led to her husband’s suicide. 

New York Court of Appeals
27 N.Y.3d 694, 37 N.Y.S.3d 46, 57 N.E.3d 1083
2016-06-30

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