Opinion ID: 2625366
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Heading: Live Photographs

Text: The court permitted the prosecutor to admit two photographs of victim Castillo with some relatives. Defendant asserts these photographs were irrelevant, could only have worked to unduly prejudice defendant, and hence were inadmissible. (See, e.g., People v. Osband (1996) 13 Cal.4th 622, 677, 55 Cal.Rptr.2d 26, 919 P.2d 640.) The Attorney General observes, however, that the prosecutor used the photographs for identification purposes while examining five different witnesses, and also to identify Castillo as the subject in the autopsy photographs. Our cases have permitted similar uses of photographs of victims while alive. ( Ibid.; People v. DeSantis (1992) 2 Cal.4th 1198, 1230, 9 Cal.Rptr.2d 628, 831 P.2d 1210.) We find no error in admitting these photographs.