If a defendant's medical records are admitted to a medical malpractice trial, is it prejudicial to the defense?
California, United States of America
The following excerpt is from People v. Hernandez, E064463 (Cal. App. 2017):
(Evid. Code, 210, 350), and even if the medical records were insufficiently authenticated (Evid. Code, 1560, 1561, 1271), the admission of the records was not prejudicial to the defense. There is no reasonable probability defendant would have realized a more favorable result had the records not been admitted. (People v. Watson (1956) 46 Cal.2d 818, 836.)
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