Re:Yet another scientific body has debunked bitemark analysis
by eesmith on Friday October 21, 2022 @03:47AM
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That's incomplete, to some extent.
The Daubert standard says the judge is a gatekeeper who can rule that a given expert's opinion will not be presented to the jury unless the expert's opinions are relevant, reliable, and based in scientific knowledge.
Re:Yet another scientific body has debunked bitemark analysis
by tinalumfoil on Friday October 21, 2022 @08:43AM
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It's more than that. The judge usually has a good relationship with the prosecution, and the judge is deciding on what the jury is allowed to see and what expert witnesses are allowed to testify as expert witnesses.
The problem is that one side of this equation has a cottage industry of well-funded experts to pick from, but there isn't a cottage industry of well-funded 'bullshit debunkers' to work for the defense.