Opinion ID: 2509294
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Heading: Exclusion of Evidence of Eckstone's Detention

Text: Defendant contends the trial court violated his constitutional rights to a fair trial and to present a defense when, pursuant to Evidence Code section 352, it refused his request to recall Ms. Eckstone to testify to her detention for drug use after her initial testimony. (See 25 Cal.Rptr.3d at pp. 726-728, 107 P.3d at pp. 832-835, ante. ) Notwithstanding defendant's insinuation that Eckstone's detention was engineered by the prosecution in retaliation for her testimony, the record is clear that neither the prosecutor nor the court had anything to do with it. Thus, the evidence was irrelevant to any issue in the case. Moreover, even if there was some tangential relevance to her testimony, its probative value would have been vastly outweighed by the probability that it would either have required an undue consumption of time or may have confused the issues and misled the jury. (Evid.Code, § 352.) We find no abuse of discretion in the trial court's exclusion of the evidence.