People v. Yates
Annotate this CaseUnder People v. Sanchez, 63 Cal.4th 665, 684–686, an expert 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. The Court of Appeal held that the trial court misapplied Sanchez and erroneously allowed the People's experts to relate as true case-specific facts contained in hearsay statements, which were not covered by a hearsay exception or independently proven by competent evidence. The testimony was prejudicial to defendant and thus the court reversed the judgment, remanding to the trial court.
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