This publication documents a workshop series on the Qualifications of an Expert Witness for Legal Professionals hosted by the Forensic Technology Center of Excellence in collaboration with North Carolina State University.
This publication provides abstracts and synopses of workshops held as part a two-part virtual workshop series on the Qualifications of an Expert Witness for Legal Professionals hosted by the Forensic Technology Center of Excellence, a program of the National Institute of Justice, in collaboration with North Carolina State University. The workshops included presentations from a diverse panel of speakers, including trial attorneys, professors, attorney generals, and postconviction litigators. The event served as a forum to discuss issues related to forensic science. The workshops explored historical basis for the Frye and Daubert standards, issues surrounding qualifying expert witnesses, the effect of the standards on the admission of expert testimony in the courts, and the future of forensic testimony with the December 2023 revisions to Federal Rule of Evidence 702.
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