THE INTEGRATION OF BANKING AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS: THE NEED FOR REGULATORY REFORM

LINGUISTIC CONFUSION IN COURT 525 to get Romero to restate the one in three million RMP as the probability that the defendant is ...

526 JOURNAL OF LAW AND POLICY way of looking at it, would it be inaccurate to state it that way? A: It’s not inaccurate, no. Q: ...

LINGUISTIC CONFUSION IN COURT 527 probability that the matchee is not the source of the evidence. The conversion of an RMP into ...

528 JOURNAL OF LAW AND POLICY B. Prosecutor’s Fallacy As egregious as Romero’s statistical testimony was, the prosecutor committ ...

LINGUISTIC CONFUSION IN COURT 529 to overcome any reasonable doubt they might have about the defendant’s guilt. Because few thin ...

530 JOURNAL OF LAW AND POLICY prior probability should reflect the strength of the nongenetic evidence in the case as determined ...

LINGUISTIC CONFUSION IN COURT 531 arbitrary 50% prior probability of paternity violated the presumption of innocence.^57 The Tex ...

532 JOURNAL OF LAW AND POLICY IV. ERROR RATES The previous two sections documented statistical errors associated with DNA eviden ...

LINGUISTIC CONFUSION IN COURT 533 Simply put, the probative value of a DNA match is capped by the frequency with which false pos ...

534 JOURNAL OF LAW AND POLICY Again, the RMP of 1 in 1,000,000 contributes nothing of value beyond this. Indeed, this RMP might ...

LINGUISTIC CONFUSION IN COURT 535 “individualizations.”^69 Some experts use those two words interchangeably to indicate that the ...

536 JOURNAL OF LAW AND POLICY latent print and the known prints that I am comparing to were made by the same source. Q: Meaning ...

LINGUISTIC CONFUSION IN COURT 537 will help forensic linguists persuade courts that their evidence is based on reliable methods ...

538 JOURNAL OF LAW AND POLICY and include training in elementary statistics and probability for its members. Regarding the latte ...

LINGUISTIC CONFUSION IN COURT 539 (if not all) forensic sciences. Forensic linguistics would do well to offer conservative, desc ...

541 BEING PRAGMATIC ABOUT FORENSIC LINGUISTICS Edward K. Cheng* If my late colleague Margaret Berger taught me anything about ev ...

542 JOURNAL OF LAW AND POLICY I. DAUBERT No discussion of scientific evidence—at least no discussion of scientific evidence in t ...

BEING PRAGMATIC ABOUT FORENSIC LINGUISTICS 543 requirements.^6 What they really impose is an impressionistic type of scrutiny, g ...

544 JOURNAL OF LAW AND POLICY credentialed expert simply will not do.^11 Finally, is the expert willing to acknowledge and addre ...

BEING PRAGMATIC ABOUT FORENSIC LINGUISTICS 545 a “wish list” of attributes that the law might want from the field. In an ideal w ...