Legal Opinion
Collins v. State
California Court of Appeal
Decided August 25, 2004No. C042832PublishedCited by 8 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion
ROBIE, J.
In this personal injury case, plaintiff William F. Collins was represented by the Law Offices of Joseph W. Carcione, Jr. One of the lawyers from Carcione’s firm, Steve Purtill, hired Carl C. Clark, Ph.D., as an expert witness on the subject matter of windshields. Unbeknownst to Purtill, a year earlier, counsel for two defendants hired Dr. Clark as a consultant for his clients on the same subject matter. After Purtill disclosed Dr. Clark as a retained expert witness, the trial court granted the defendants’ motion to disqualify Collins’s counsel. Collins and his wife, Barbara,…
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