Expert witness

Their expert witness was a psychiatrist. According to Champion, Hartley& Rabe that both sides can have an expert witnesses that will give a clear interpretation of evidence in the case or evaluation of the actions done because they are extremely experienced in their filed and can give expert testimony to either rebut or counter the arguments in the case which can either help or hurt the case (169)…

Gary L. Wells, the psychology expert, he pointed the victim or eyewitnesses will choose the person who is the most alike criminal based on the memory. Even though the real criminal’s photo is not in the photo lineup, an eyewitness would most likely pick up the most similar person through the memory. Because of the facial appearance’s similarity between Ronald Cotton and Bobby Poole such as the shape of the eyes, eyebrows, lip, and etcetera, Jennifer had chosen and mistaken Ronald Cotton who was…

Thus, the Court first upheld the gatekeeping role as applied to an engineering witness and made it clear that the Daubert analysis was to be applied to the evidence proffered by all experts, not only by scientists. Second, the Court supported that trial judges are permitted to examine whether an expert's conclusions are sufficiently unfailing, even if based on the accepted and proper…

Witness testimony is an instrument used in the field of Criminal Justice and Law Enforcement. Testimony is defined as “the oral evidence offered by a sworn witness on the stand during a criminal trial” (Pearson). Witness testimony plays a great role in the Criminal Justice system today, but the skepticism of eyewitnesses has been growing. In order to discover what has went wrong in this technique we should go back to where it was commenced. Testimony origins from the latin word “testify”, which…

Expert witnesses are a crucial and frequently required factor in most civil cases. An expert can be an important part of many aspect in either the prosecution or defense’s case. An expert can be utilized to introduce the evidence through their own testimonials but their role does not end there. As Douglas Heist stated expert witnesses are useful “in the development, evaluation and preparation of the defense or prosecution of a case (2010).” In most malpractice cases expert witnesses are…

to have one at a normal cost .In so doing, the Supreme Court had stated that Hinton’s sixth amendment had been violated because his lawyer wasn’t aware of the fact that Alabama law could allow him to acquire more funding in need of an expert witness (firearms expert). Therefore, the Supreme Court found that Hinton’s lawyer wasn’t minimally competent due to…

client, namely the attorney, lacks courtroom or jury selection experience (Andrews, 2005). Some of services provided by trial consultants include, but are not limited to, change of venue studies, expert testimonies, witness training, focus groups research, mock jury trials, pro bono services, witness preparation, voir dire strategy, community attitude surveys, post-trial juror interviews, trial simulations, studies for nonjury settings, pretrial case analysis, pretrial survey analysis, pre/…

who is not in any of the databases without violating his or her constitutional rights under the Fourth, Fifth, or Fourteenth Amendment (Dempsey & Forst, 2011).One of the biggest challenges in using DNA evidence is defending it in court against expert witnesses. The prosecutor has to be able to prove why their DNA was found where it was, how it was discovered, when it…

In the Mock Trial, The NAHH claims that” Our House” is a health facility and is violating local zoning because they do not have a permit to be a health care facility. Their purpose is to close down the facility because the community is being exposed to HIV.” Our House” states that it’s a house where people who are infected with HIV can live together .The issues that “Our House” faced in the trial are based on discrimination against HIV because people believed that they could be containment…

having private experts and law enforcers working together. I always recommend that forensic experts should involve law enforcement in a situation where search warrant and arrest warrant are necessary. I believe by having computer forensics expert witness working with police, they can make a lot of difference in the admissibility and acceptance of the evidence in the court of law in the cases of trade secrets and intellectual property violation. The work of a company forensic expert is to detect…