Category: Expert Witness Research
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Reliability of Frequent Location History Data held to be Insufficiently Established
The Commonwealth alleged that at around 10:51 A.M. on March 31, 2015, the Defendant, a cooperating witness, and Jeromie Johnson participated in a home invasion on Harvard Street in the Dorchester section of Boston. Richard Long, Yvette O’Brien, and O’Brien’s newborn son were at home at the time of the attack. Johnson and the Defendant…
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South Dakota Supreme Court affirms exclusion of polygraph evidence in the absence of agreement between the parties
Background The case examines the admission of polygraph evidence in criminal and civil cases. Banks pled guilty to first-degree manslaughter and prior to his sentencing hearing sought to introduce polygraph analysis as evidence to prove that he was not the shooter. The Circuit Court decided to preclude the polygraph examination from the evidence, which subsequently…
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Expert Witness Research Survey:: 2017-18
Expert Witness Research Methods and Data Sources Whether you are an attorney, paralegal, law librarian or legal researcher, any legal professional who works in the expert search and research arena must surely notice that the space is highly fluid, dynamic and evolving at a near dizzying pace. Almost weekly, a new product, service, company emerges…
