Civil Litigation,
Law Practice,
Criminal,
California Supreme Court,
California Courts of Appeal
Feb. 16, 2018
Prevent experts from presenting hearsay to the jury
The California Supreme Court revised an expert’s ability to rely on hearsay not long ago. Earn MCLE credit catching up with what the court said.
Experts explain complex evidence to make it accessible and understandable to a trier of fact. Since an expert must rely on years of education, training and experience to perform this task, the courts have granted them the ability to rely on a limited amount of hearsay when forming their opinions and present that hearsay to the trier of fact. However, this limited use of hearsay has been abused to present otherwise inadmissible evidence to a jury. The California Suprem...
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