CALIFORNIA FAMILY LAW
...Procedure Before Trial/Hearing
......Trials/Requests for Orders
.........Expert Opinions
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Experts' opinions.

Expert may state reason and basis for opinion.

Improper basis of opinion.

E’s testimony that he relied on a database to determine the contents of the pills found on D’s person was not case-specific hearsay.

Expert witness, a coroner, violated Sanchez when she testified to the case-specific statements of another coroner; error harmless.

Expert may not rely on case-specific hearsay in forming opinion.

Introduction of hearsay at a custody hearing not reversible error absent showing of prejudice.

Under Sanchez, an expert witness may not relate as true the case-specific content of documents which were neither admitted into evidence nor shown to be covered by a hearsay exception.

Under Sanchez, psychiatric expert could testify to case-specific facts in psychiatric patient's records that were ruled admissible under the business records exception of the hearsay rule.

Sanchez precluded expert from relating case-specific hearsay facts about V's mental condition and aggressive behavior in hypothetical form.

Expert's testimony that he relied on a database to determine the contents of the pills found on defendant's person was not case-specific hearsay.

Defendant did not forfeit Sanchez arguments on appeal by failing to raise objections at trial before Sanchez was decided.

Sanchez does not bar the admission of a social services report in the absence of its primary author.

In public nuisance case, trial ct. erred in allowing expert witness to testify to case-specific hearsay to show gang created nuisance activity; error harmless as other competent evidence showed such activity.