Are Forensic Experts an Endangered Species?
Slap, AJ
Chair, Environmental Law Group, Fox, Rothschild, O'Brien & Frankel, Philadelphia, PA.

Fessenden, M
Litigation associate, Mesirov, Gellman, Jaffe, Cramer & Jamieson, Philadelphia, PA.


Abstract
There are those in the legal profession, including some judges, who believe that the only good expert is a dead one. Such people believe that only established truth through science should be permitted into the courtroom; anything less is rank speculation and should be excluded on summary judgment. In such a world, there would be scant need for causation experts or juries, despite the guarantee of the Seventh Amendment.

Keywords:
expert witnesses, forensic science, jurisprudence, testimony, witnesses

Paper ID: JFS363910714

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