Opinion ID: 2160396
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Heading: admission of affidavits

Text: Next, Valerie argues that the trial court erred in admitting an affidavit into evidence in violation of her due process rights. Over Valerie's objection, the court received into evidence the affidavit, with the exception of one paragraph which the court omitted for lack of foundation, of a physician from Oregon expressing the opinion that a relationship between Therese and Isabella would be a positive one for Isabella. Valerie concedes in her brief that another witness testified to the same point of fact that [the affidavit] sought to address. Brief for appellant at 33. That being true, the admission of the affidavit, if constitutionally impermissible, was cumulative to properly admitted evidence and was not prejudicial. See Behm v. Northwestern Bell Tel. Co., 241 Neb. 838, 491 N.W.2d 334 (1992). This assignment of error is without merit.