Evidence:

9. Opinions, Experts, and Scientific Evidence

   1. Lay Opinions

      Advisory Committee Note to F.R.E. 701

      Advisory Committee Note to F.R.E. 704

      United States v. Meling

      Government of the Virgin Islands v. Knight

      Robinson v. Bump

      Advisory Committee Note to 2000 Amendment to F.R.E. 701

      United States v. Peoples

   2. Expert Testimony

      1. Permissible Subjects and Scope

         Advisory Committee Note to F.R.E. 702

         Hatch v. State Farm Fire & Casualty Co.

         Advisory Committee Note to F.R.E. 703

         Advisory Committee Note to 2000 Amendment to F.R.E. 703

         Report of the Senate Judiciary Committee

      2. Reliability

         1. Court-Appointed Experts

            Advisory Committee Note to F.R.E. 706

            LeBlanc v. PNS Stores, Inc.

            John Shepard Wiley Jr., Taming Patent Cases

         2. Judicial Screening of Party-Appointed Experts

            Daubert v. Merrell Dow Pharmaceuticals, Inc.

            General Electric Co. v. Joiner

            Kumho Tire Company, LTD. v. Carmichael

            Advisory Committee Note to 2000 Amendment to F.R.E. 702

            Eleanor Swift, One Hundred Years of Evidence Law Reform: Thayer's Triumph

            David L. Faigman, David H. Kaye, Michael J. Saks, and Joseph Sanders, How Good Is Good Enough?  Expert Evidence Under Daubert and Kumho

            Richard D. Friedman, "E" Is for Eclectic: Multiple Perspectives on Evidence

   3. Current Controversies in Scientific Evidence

      1. Lie Detection

         State v. Porter

         United States v. Scheffer

         Problem

      2. Social Science Evidence

         United States v. Smithers

         State v. Coley

         State v. Kinney

         D. Michael Risinger, Navigating Expert Reliability: Are Criminal Standards of Certainty Being Left on the Dock?

         Christopher Slobogin, Doubts About Daubert: Psychiatric Anecdata as a Case Study

      3. Probabilistic Evidence

         1. A Probability Primer

            [Click here for more about probability]

            [Click here for more about Bayes' Theorem]

            [Click here for more about "Bayesian probability"]

            [Click here for more about Thomas Bayes]

         2. "Trial by Mathematics"

            People v. Collins

            [Click here for more about "the prosecutor's fallacy"]

            Roger C. Park, Evidence Scholarship, Old and New

            State v. Spann

            Problem

         3. DNA Testing

            Jonathan J. Koehler, DNA Matches and Statistics: Important Questions, Surprising Answers

            United States v. Shea

            Jonathan J. Koehler, On Conveying the Probative Value of DNA Evidence: Frequencies, Likelihood Ratios, and Error Rates

            [Click here for more about DNA]

            [Click here for more about the mathematics of DNA matches]

            [Click here for an online tutorial on DNA testing]

      4. Traditional Forensic Science

         Michael J. Saks & Jonathan J. Koehler, What DNA "Fingerprinting" Can Teach the Law About the Rest of Forensic Science

         United States v. Fujii

         Michael J. Saks, Banishing Ipse Dixit: The Impact of Kumho Tire on Forensic Identification Science

         Simon A. Cole, Suspect Identities: A History of Fingerprinting and Criminal Identification

         United States v. Llera Plaza

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