(ii) Factors against admitting evidence in the form of a written statement include whether: (a) there is an overriding public interest in the evidence in question being presented orally; (b) a party objecting can demonstrate that its nature and source renders it unreliable, or that its prejudicial effect outweighs its probative value; or.
Judges routinely exclude evidence when its prejudicial effect outweighs its probative value — an odd phrase that can be explained with an example from Hitt's article.
"The pervasiveness of the coverage and its prejudicial effect to Mr. Baca receiving a fair trial by an impartial jury free from outside influence cannot be overstated," Hochman wrote.
He also said he would bar the government from introducing an Internet communication in which a co-conspirator discussed with Mr. Valle the cannibalization of a child; the judge said its evidentiary value was "far outweighed by its unfair prejudicial effect".
But Senator Gormley said yesterday that the ruling left unanswered another question: whether Mr. Verniero's announcement of the misconduct charges -- and its possibly prejudicial effect on the grand jury hearing the shooting charges -- could have been avoided altogether by sealing the first indictment until the second panel had decided whether to return an indictment.
Thus, the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) has held that "[w]hen a general policy or measure has disproportionately prejudicial effects on a particular group, it is not excluded that this may be considered as discriminatory notwithstanding that it is not specifically aimed or directed at that group".
However, dialysis may in itself, also have prejudicial effects on the nervous system.
Reduced early commitment to apoptosis eliminated the prejudicial effects of the loss of cells to a 'dying fraction'.
On the other hand, hemoconcentration, defined in a recent Cochrane review as values of hemoglobin >130 g/L at the 2nd trimester of gestation [ 4], has been associated with prejudicial effects in the mother and fetus.
But were a poll to compare the responses of Ph.D.s and high-school dropouts to the same question, or were a poll to compare the responses of Ph.D.s ten years ago with the responses of Ph.D.s today, then, he believes, a meaningful result can be obtained: because the same question is used for the two separate groups, whatever prejudicial effect its wording might have will be cancelled out.
