CALIFORNIA EVIDENCE: CIVIL AND CRIMINAL
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Hearsay Exceptions re Writings
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Official Records
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Specific Applications
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D failed to show error in admitting criminalist's testimony re D's blood sample BAL over his chain of custody objection—no evidence deputies, hospital staff, or crime lab did not perform their duties as regularly performed.
Lab reports prepared by non-testifying county criminalist properly admitted as public employee records exception to hearsay rule (Evid. Code §1280).
Having met Evid. Code §1271 business records requirements, HLA blood test report properly admitted in paternity case.