California Supreme Court
Mar. 3, 2020
State Supreme Court ‘clarifies’ expert witnesses and hearsay
Last week, the California Supreme Court decided two cases about the effect of its watershed decision People v. Sanche, governing expert witnesses and their use of hearsay.
Don Willenburg
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Stanford Univ Law School
Don is chair of the firm's Appellate Practice Group in Oakland, and an attorney member of the Information Technology Advisory Committee to the Judicial Council. The views expressed are his own.
Last week, the California Supreme Court decided two cases about the effect of its watershed decision People v. Sanchez, 63 Cal. 4th 665 (2016), governing expert witnesses and their use of hearsay. Sanchez built a wall-blocking expert witnesses' use of "case-specific" hearsay evidence. On first read,
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