Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Lars Daniel covers digital evidence and forensics in life and law. In a twist that perfectly encapsulates the risks of artificial ...

March 18, 2024 - On March 19, 2024, the Supreme Court will hear argument in United States v. Diaz about the scope of Federal Rule of Evidence 704(b), which provides that, in criminal cases, "an expert ...

May Rule 403 restrict or even lead to the exclusion of expert testimony that passes the Frye test? The answer is "maybe," and advice from "down under" in Australia suggests that rule as a potent tool.

In Wolford v. Lopez, the Supreme Court has the opportunity to clarify for the lower courts the difference between legislative and adjudicative facts. Lower courts hostile to the Second Amendment ...

Cars line up to cross into the United States at Tijuana's busy San Ysidro border crossing in April 2022. (Cody Copeland/Courthouse News Service) WASHINGTON (CN) — The Supreme Court on Thursday refused ...

July 03, 2024 - Most criminal defense attorneys have encountered efforts by prosecutors to elicit "expert opinions" from law enforcement agents at trial that, in essence, the Defendant's actions ...

NEW YORK — An expert witness was called to the stand at a Brooklyn domestic sexual assault trial to tell the jury about the impact of intimate abuse in the Islamic faith. The testimony included claims ...

“. . . in thinking about an ethical framework, we may do well to transfer our attention from an individual-focused system that sees the problem as how to hold individuals to proper standards of ...

Amendments to the Federal Rule of Evidence 702 have given counsel more confidence when filing motions to exclude expert evidence Tweaks to US litigation rules have given counsel more confidence when ...

The nine justices currently sitting on the U.S. Supreme Court, in 2022. Back row, left to right: Justices Amy Coney Barrett, Neil M. Gorsuch, Brett M. Kavanaugh, and Ketanji Brown Jackson; bottom row: ...