> The judge didn't allow evidence that my attorney wanted to show the jury, including a range of videos of the incident.
That's the part I find the most shocking in this article. Aren't trials supposed to be fair? What are the kind of evidences that are not allowed to be shown?
NYTimes: "Jurors were also shown several YouTube videos of Officer Bovell, 35, in March 2012 getting elbowed in his left eye by Ms. McMillan, 25, who is charged with assaulting a police officer. She has maintained that Officer Bovell groped her breast, and that she reacted without knowing he was a police officer. He has denied that he touched her breast.
The shaky videos showed Ms. McMillan, a labor organizer, in a bright green dress, jumping back and planting her elbow in Officer Bovell’s face.
“She crouched down and lunged backward, elbowing me in the eye,” Officer Bovell said. “It’s like a white light in the face.”"
That's the part I find the most shocking in this article. Aren't trials supposed to be fair? What are the kind of evidences that are not allowed to be shown?