CALIFORNIA EVIDENCE: CIVIL AND CRIMINAL
...Opinion & Scientific Evidence
......Forensic Issues
.........Criminal
............Blood Spatter Evidence
2 Cards On This Topic:

Though D waived challenge to E's qualifications re blood spatter testimony, challenge lacked merit as record showed E had lengthy background and not clearly unqualified; expert opinion on crime scene reconstruction admissible.

Harmless error to admit lay opinion testimony from technician that possible brain and bone matter were on a passenger door where substantial other evidence showed D driver shot his passenger.