California, United States of America
The following excerpt is from Mann v. Cracchiolo, 210 Cal.Rptr. 762, 38 Cal.3d 18 (Cal. 1985):
The court concluded the determinative issue in each case must be whether the witness has sufficient skill or experience in the field so that his testimony would be likely to assist the jury in the search for the truth, and "no hard and fast rule can be laid down which would be applicable in every circumstance." (11 Cal.3d at p. 645, 114 Cal.Rptr. 128, 522 P.2d 688.) Where a witness has disclosed sufficient knowledge, the question of the degree of knowledge goes more to the weight of the evidence than its admissibility. (Chadock v. Cohn (1979) 96 Cal.App.3d 205, 209, 157 Cal.Rptr. 640.)
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