State v. Riddle

The majority holds that the trial court erred in allowing the jury to hear highly relevant testimony from *542Myers, a qualified expert. The only reason for its holding is that Myers developed his opinion while working for the side that did not call him as a witness. It does not matter to the majority that Myers based his testimony entirely on the police reports, his measurements at the accident scene, and other generally available information, or that he neither relied on nor revealed any confidential information that he received while he worked for defendant. An expert, in the majority’s view,…