CALIFORNIA EVIDENCE: CIVIL AND CRIMINAL
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Opinion & Scientific Evidence
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Forensic Issues
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Valuation of Property
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Value of property may be established by expert testimony.
RE broker who used lockboxes to steal owners' personal property failed to rebut prima facie evidence of its value established at restitution hearing through owners' testimony.
Product salesperson qualified to give opinion on value.
Lay owner of land in vicinity, familiar with local land values, should have been permitted to render opinion re FMV of subject property.
Owner may testify re value of property.