Opinion ID: 2103902
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Heading: blood in the rinse vac.

Text: Appellant asserts it was error to permit the Commonwealth to introduce evidence that a trace of blood was found in the rinse vac, because the Commonwealth could not prove that it was human blood, much less the victim's blood. However, since it was the Commonwealth's theory that Appellant had cleaned the victim's blood from his residence with the rinse vac, the fact that blood was found in the rinse vac was at least circumstantial evidence relevant to that theory. The trial judge did not abuse his discretion in determining that the probative value of this evidence was not substantially outweighed by its prejudicial effect. KRE 403; Commonwealth v. English, Ky., 993 S.W.2d 941, 945 (1999).