CALIFORNIA EVIDENCE: CIVIL AND CRIMINAL
...Court Control of Proceedings
......Objections
.........Calls for Speculation or Conclusion
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  • Witness must have personal knowledge of matters to which s/he testified.
  • Opinion testimony of nonexperts subject to limitation.
  • Expert qualifications include matters within his or her special knowledge and training.
  • Calls-for-speculation objection properly sustained where court was implicitly ruling question called for a conjectural lay opinion, which would not be helpful to a clear understanding of witness' testimony.
  • Examples of questions calling for improper conclusions.
  • Objection to question to victim calling for conclusion as to D's motive properly sustained.
  • Witness' testimony re opinion of cause of death improperly admitted.