CALIFORNIA EVIDENCE: CIVIL AND CRIMINAL
...Hearsay Exceptions re Writings
......Business Records
.........Requirements
............An Act; Condition; Event
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  • Business record must be record of act, condition, or event, not an opinion.
  • Psychiatric diagnosis in medical record inadmissible.
  • Business record must record an act, condition or event.
  • Conclusion in medical report not admissible.
  • Trial court improperly admitted portions of medical record containing opinion of doctor that patient received criminal abortion.