Encyclopedia of Psychology and Law

evaluations across the United States. Some jurisdictions have augmented the Duskystandard with additional cri- teria. In these i ...

legal context in which this subject arises is insanity. Insanity in the law is a construct that relates to respon- sibility or w ...

abused and filed a police complaint subsequently tes- tify at trial that the defendant was not the source of her injuries. Prose ...

states. Indeed, this task, perhaps more than any other, tends to be handled by court-appointed experts. Commentary on the Probat ...

average layperson. Under most modern evidence codes, the subject need not be entirely “beyond the ken,” because expert testimony ...

the methods used by an expert must be generally accepted within the expert’s field. In the court’s opin- ion, the lie detection ...

the animal and chemical structure research on which the plaintiffs’ experts based their opinions was irrele- vant and that the r ...

evidence, it did not address the issue of nonscientific expert testimony. A later Supreme Court case,Kumho Tire Company v. Carmi ...

Research has also shown that there have been rela- tively few changes in the admission rates for expert testimony post-Joiner an ...

he termed legislative facts and adjudicative facts. According to Davis, legislative facts are those facts that transcend the par ...

sleeping or otherwise not attacking her and when, seemingly, she was not in “imminent harm” of “seri- ous physical injury or dea ...

example, the complaint in Daubert v. Merrell Dow Pharmaceuticals(1993) itself. The plaintiffs claimed that Jason Daubert’s mothe ...

eyewitness identification include the following. Many judges have ruled that the content of the expert testi- mony is merely a m ...

Cutler, B. L., Penrod, S. D., & Dexter, H. R. (1989). The eyewitness, the expert psychologist, and the jury. Law and Human B ...

educational attainment before an expert will be per- mitted to testify about a relevant diagnosis. For exam- ple, while a court ...

then even the most eminent (most highly qualified) practitioner of that asserted expertise still would not be permitted to testi ...

eyewitnesses (aged 17 to 81 years). The witnesses indi- vidually viewed a video reconstruction of a robbery at a savings bank. N ...

defendants believed them to be. If successful with the EED defense, a defendant charged with murder should be found guilty of th ...

explanation or excuse for the disturbance. As noted above, the reasonableness of such explanation or excuse should be determined ...

age, height, weight, build, and complexion. Aspects of the clothing worn by the perpetrator are also fre- quently mentioned, but ...