{"id":2718,"date":"2024-04-20T09:11:17","date_gmt":"2024-04-20T13:11:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.millerandzois.com\/law-admissibility-accident-pictures\/"},"modified":"2025-04-20T11:05:33","modified_gmt":"2025-04-20T15:05:33","slug":"law-admissibility-accident-pictures","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.millerandzois.com\/professional-attorney-information-center\/maryland-law-update\/law-admissibility-accident-pictures\/","title":{"rendered":"Getting Photographs of Property in Evidence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Under Maryland law, photographs may be introduced as evidence in both civil and criminal trials. The purpose of admitting photographs into evidence is to illustrate the description of a person, place, or object so as to explain or apply the evidence. In car accident cases, personal injury lawyers are on both sides of the admissibility of photographs. In a case with limited property damage, a plaintiff&#8217;s attorney wants to keep the pictures out of evidence. If the property damage pictures underscore a serious car accident, the plaintiffs&#8217; lawyer wants to get those pictures into evidence.<\/p>\n<p>So there are constant pre-trial battles over the circumstances under which photographs of the vehicles involved in a car accident may be admitted at trial.<\/p>\n<p>When we started our practice, our lawyers handled a lot of car accident cases where the property damage was not significant. Today, in most car or truck accident cases we handle, the property damage is such that we are seeking to admit the damages to the vehicles. Why? To underscore the violence of the collision so that the jury might appreciate why the injuries were what they were, and, even more importantly, the trauma of such a violent hit is a component of Plaintiff&#8217;s claim for pain and suffering. But our lawyers also handle cases where the property damage is less significant if we believe the Plaintiff has suffered a real injury.<\/p>\n<div class=\"read_more_link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.millerandzois.com\/professional-attorney-information-center\/maryland-law-update\/law-admissibility-accident-pictures\/\"  title=\"Continue Reading Getting Photographs of Property in Evidence\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading \u2192<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Under Maryland law, photographs may be introduced as evidence in both civil and criminal trials. The purpose of admitting photographs into evidence is to illustrate the description of a person, place, or object so as to explain or apply the evidence. In car accident cases, personal injury lawyers are on both sides of the admissibility [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":2708,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-2718","page","type-page","status-publish"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>How to Get (or Get Excluded) Photographs at Trial<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"How to get photograph evidence in - or get it excluded - at trial in a personal injury lawsuit. 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