Under a “limited” exception to the rule against hearsay, learned treatises may be used on direct examination of an expert witness for the purpose of explaining the expert’s opinion, the Pennsylvania Supreme Court has held.
In so ruling, the justices made it clear that they were rejecting the wholesale exception to the hearsay rule for authoritative texts propounded by the Superior Court in Nigro v. Remington Arms Co.
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