CALIFORNIA EVIDENCE: CIVIL AND CRIMINAL
...Opinion & Scientific Evidence
......Expert Testimony: Qualifications
.........Experts Found Not Qualified-Examples
............In General
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  • No abuse of discretion to exclude investigator's penalty testimony as he was not a psychologist and not qualified to offer expert opinion re psychological impact of D's upbringing on his behavior or how he would adjust to prison.
  • Trial court did not abuse its discretion in concluding psych professor and gang expert was not competent to testify concerning a genetic basis for D's drug and alcohol problems.
  • Expert testimony properly excluded where E lacked sufficient personal knowledge and had inadequate basis for formulating relevant expert opinion despite general qualifications.
  • Qualifications based solely upon previous observation without inquiry, analysis or experiment insufficient to qualify as expert.
  • Expert's conclusion properly stricken where based upon expert's faulty methodology or reasoning; court must determine that conclusion based upon scientific knowledge.
  • Expert may be qualified in one area, but unqualified in related area.