Dusting for Daubert; several defense lawyers argue fingerprint evidence is not scientific. So far, the courts aren't buying it

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Rulings rejecting defense attorney contentions that fingerprint evidence should not be admitted because it is not scientific are discussed. Scientific experts disagree with the rulings, which come from several district courts.

United States, Fingerprints

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Unfettered filming; court bars defense lawyers from set of day-in-the-life video

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The Illinois Supreme Court reversed a ruling allowing defense lawyers to be present during the filming of a day-in-the-life video in a medical malpractice case. The video will demonstrate the amount of care needed by a 10-year-old brain-damaged girl. The ruling equates the video with demonstrative evidence, such as charts, photographs or models. The dissenting justices stressed the unique power of video representations.

Evidence, Demonstrative, Demonstrative evidence, Video recordings

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Completing the admissibility equation: justices may fill the gap in Daubert test of scientific evidence

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The US Supreme Court is planning to hear General Electric Co. v. Joiner, in which the plaintiff contends that exposure to polychlorinated biphenyls caused him to develop lung cancer based on scientific evidence rejected by the trial court. This case may establish firm rules governing the acceptance of scientific evidence that is not generally accepted in the scientific community. This would expand the standard created in the Daubert test that judges determine whether the evidence is based on solid scientific evidence.

Causes of, Lung cancer

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