Opinion ID: 4521869
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Heading: Admission of Photographs of Pamela’s

Text: Gravesite During Desiree’s testimony, the prosecution showed her a picture of her kneeling over her mother’s casket and kissing it goodbye. Before Desiree testified, the prosecution had asked the trial court to rule on the admissibility of two photographs from Pamela’s gravesite, which Desiree herself provided to the prosecution. The trial court allowed the two photographs, rejecting defense counsel’s argument that the photographs were incendiary and cumulative. The two photographs were properly 86 PEOPLE v. FAYED Opinion of the Court by Chin, J. admitted and not unduly emotional. (See People v. Suff (2014) 58 Cal.4th 1013, 1076 [four photos of children leaving notes at mother’s grave admissible as “evidence of the impact her death had on them”]; see also People v. Zamudio (2008) 43 Cal.4th 327, 368 [photo of victim’s gravesite admissible “as ‘further evidence relating to her death and the effect upon her family’ ”].)