CALIFORNIA EVIDENCE: CIVIL AND CRIMINAL
...Method of Exam: Cross-Exam
......Bias or Improper Motive
.........Financial Interest-Settlement
3 Cards On This Topic:

Settlement of claims by other Ps admissible to show bias or prejudice of adverse witness or to rehabilitate witness.

Instruction on sliding scale settlement agreement between P and 2 of 3 Ds failed to tell jurors of potential bias.

Proper to show that attorney witness had contingent fee contract giving him interest in outcome.