United States v. Zack Vance Sims

How courts have described this case

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• holding that courts “should . . . leave to the expert the assessment of the reliability of the statements on which he bases his expert opinion”
• ruling that hearsay material relied upon by an expert “is to be considered solely as a basis for the expert opinion and not as substantive evidence”
• observing that Rule 703 rejected the previous rule that required inadmissible hearsay evidence relied upon by experts to be subject to “verification” before being presented to a trier of fact

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).