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Even if that is an option, and the results come back favorable to the defendant, they still don't have a great situation. Now there will be two experts coming i
by dnbgfher 8y ago
Even if that is an option, and the results come back favorable to the defendant, they still don't have a great situation. Now there will be two experts coming in and saying different things to the jury. The details that might explain those differences are likely beyond what can be adequately explained to a jury during a trial.
But the defendant themselves paid one of the experts, so...
- oldandtired 8y agoDecades ago, I served on a jury where we had an expert witness for defence and an expert witness for prosecution. We, the jury, made a decision to ignore both expert witnesses as they each had a different opinion, please note the word "opinion". I do not know with what regard, under US jurisdictions, the evidence provided by "expert" witnesses is treated, but at the time, we were told by the presiding judge to treat it as opinion by an "expert" and not as direct evidence.