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State v. McDonald, 163 N.H. 115, 126 (2011); State v. West, 167 N.H. 465, 468 (2015).

701; see also State v. McDonald, 163 N.H. 115, 121 (2011).

Moreover, it is always “the province and obligation of the jury to determine the credibility of witnesses.” State v. McDonald, 163 N.H. 115, 121 (2011).

“An error is harmless only if it is determined, beyond a reasonable doubt, that the verdict was not affected by the error.” State v. McDonald, 163 N.H. 115, 123 (2011).

The admissibility of evidence is a matter left to the sound discretion of the trial court.

The admissibility of evidence is a matter left to the sound discretion of the trial court.

In determining whether a ruling is a proper exercise of judicial discretion, we consider whether the record establishes an objective basis sufficient to sustain the discretionary decision made.

Rather, the purpose of the trial court’s charge is to state and explain to the jury, in clear and intelligible language, the rules of law applicable to the case.” State v. McDonald, 163 N.H. 115, 126 (2011) (citation and quotations omitted).

This, the defendant argues, impermissibly lowered the State’s burden of proof to something less than “beyond a reasonable doubt.” “[T]he purpose of the trial court’s charge is to state and explain to the jury, in clear and intelligible language, the rules of law applicable to the case.” State v. McDonald, 163 N.H. 115, 126 (2011) (quotation omitted).

State v. McDonald, 163 N.H. 115, 127-28 (2011) (declining to construe the term “forcible sex offense” to mean any aggravated felonious sexual assault because to do so would render the term meaningless and require the court to insert language the legislature did not see fit to include).

Moreover, the trial court is not required to use the specific language requested by *803 either party, see State v. McDonald, 163 N.H. 115, 126 (2011), and the court’s decision not to give the instruction requested by the landowner was not error.

State v. McDonald, 163 N.H. 115, 127 (2011) (“The legislature could have permitted the use of deadly force against any ‘aggravated felonious sexual assault’ by using that term in the self-defense statute.

*587 We interpret statutes in the context of the overall statutory scheme, not in isolation.