Arizona Adopts Daubert Standard

It came as a com­plete sur­prise to me, but appar­ently Arizona just left behind the Frye Standard for expert tes­ti­mony, and adopted the Daubert Standard. See the recently signed into law Arizona SB 1189.

What it means is that expert wit­nesses, sci­en­tists and other wit­nesses giv­ing opin­ion based tes­ti­mony of a tech­ni­cal nature, will be held to a higher degree of scrutiny. It will also give judges more defined stan­dards for what types of tes­ti­mony to allow into trial.

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