In what circumstances will the Attorney General allow the prosecution to present a graphic graphic image of a dead fetus at trial?

The Attorney General insists the prosecutor is entitled to more leeway and should not be hamstrung by the defense. According to the Attorney General, to deny the prosecutor the opportunity to display the dead fetus would have been to "deprive the state's case of its persuasiveness and forcefulness." (People v. Edelbacher (1989) 47 Cal.3d 983, 1007.) We disagree and the cases cited by the Attorney General prove the point.

For example, in People v. Crittenden (1994) 9 Cal.4th 83, the prosecution displayed 24 graphic photographs of the victim's bludgeoned bodies, one covered by blood-soaked clothes, others with bound wrists and blackened fingernails, some with knives protruding and in close proximity to a purse with the contents

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