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Civil Litigation,
Law Practice

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.

Spring Street Courthouse

Lawrence P. Riff

Site Judge
Los Angeles County Superior Court

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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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