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

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Daubert Hearing Only Needed for Novel Challenges

Finally some sense inter­jected into the crim­i­nal jus­tice sys­tem, as it relates to expert wit­ness testimony.

Fifth Circuit holds that “absent novel chal­lenges, fin­ger­print evi­dence is suf­fi­ciently reli­able to sat­isfy Rule 702 and Daubert,” and a Daubert hear­ing is not nec­es­sar­ily required, in United States v. John, _ F.3d. _ (5th Cir. Feb. 9, 2010) (No.

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