Law Practice,
Civil Litigation
Feb. 25, 2022
The Evidence Slayer: Evidence Code Section 721(b)
When it comes to experts, there is usually little good to come of the more pedestrian modes of impeachment.
Stanley Mosk Courthouse
Lawrence P. Riff
Supervising Judge
Los Angeles County Superior Court
Evidence Code Section 721(b): The Expert Slayer
You have heard Professor John Wigmore's dictum a hundred times: "Cross-examination is the greatest legal engine ever invented for the discovery of truth." Wigmore, 5 "Evidence" Section 1367, at 29 (3d ed. Little, Brown & Co. 1940).
If only t'were that simple. It's not.
A tight,...
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