Sanders v. Com.’s Empirical Analysis

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13 state decisions

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1. “In Simpson v. Commonwealth, 227 Va. 557, 566 , 318 S.E.2d 386, 391 (1984), we noted that Code § 8.01-401.1, which permits “an expert to base his opinion on facts made known or perceived by him at or before trial, whether admissible in themselves or not, provided they are facts of a type normally relied on by other experts in the field,” is limited by the express language of the statute to civil cases. In Simpson , we declined the Commonwealth’s invitation to judicially expand this rule to criminal prosecutions. Id.”

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   e.g. Wesley Brian Earnest v. Commonwealth of Virginia