At trial, all relevant evidence is admissible unless a specific rule excludes the evidence or limits its admissibility. Irrelevant evidence is not admissible.

Relevant evidence means evidence having any tendency to make the existence of any fact that is of consequence to the determination of the action more probable or less probable than it would be without the evidence.

The question asked is "does the evidence help, in some minimum way, to establish the fact or proposition that it is introduced to establish". If it does, the evidence is deemed relevant and is admitted into court unless another rule serves to exclude the evidence.

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