Part 5: Expert Witness Testimony: Frye, Daubert & FRE 702

Описание: Part 5: Expert Witness Testimony: Frye, Daubert & FRE 702

Featuring Chris Fabricant, director of Strategic Litigation at the Innocence Project, and Professor Tucker Carrington of the University of Mississippi Law School: explains the ongoing struggle in American courts to determine which expert evidence – and in particular, which scientific evidence – is reliable and should be admitted. The episode focuses on the cases of Frye, Daubert, and Kumho Tire and Rule 702 of the Federal Rules of Evidence.

About the video series:

In June 2020, the U.S.-Asia Law Institute held a series of virtual workshops that brought together lawyers, legal scholars, judges, and prosecutors from the United States, mainland China, Japan and Taiwan. Each workshop discussed an aspect of U.S. evidence law that our Chinese partners wanted to better understand as they reflect on future reforms of China’s evidence rules. The workshops were designed and led by USALI Senior Research Scholar Ira Belkin, a former U.S. federal prosecutor.

The videos contain lengthy excerpts from five workshops. The non-U.S. participants were already broadly familiar with U.S. criminal procedure, so the presentations do not include basic information about the U.S. criminal justice system.  

The workshops were held as part of USALI’s project to promote Trial-Centered Justice in China.