State of Arizona v. Hon. Roland J. Steinle, Judge of the Superior Court of the State of Arizona, in and for The…

Summary

The court held that a thirty-one-second excerpt of a cellphone video depicting a stabbing was not rendered inadmissible by the rules of completeness, best evidence, hearsay, or authentication. Because the trial court had not considered whether the excerpt's probative value was substantially outweighed by unfair prejudice under Rule 403, the court vacated the lower courts' rulings and remanded for that determination. The opinion contains no separate writings.