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Expert’s Burn-Pattern Conclusions Flawed
Loaded on March 18, 2020
by David M. Reutter
published in Criminal Legal News
April, 2020, page 22
Filed under:
junk science.
Location:
Texas.
by David M. Reutter
The admission of expert opinion based on science is powerful evidence that is supposed to assist the jury in determining the truth surrounding an event. When a flawed opinion comes into play, the scales of justice become tilted.
Those scales were titled when Dr. Matthew Cox ...
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