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Expert witnesses are inherently adversarial, like the court system itself. There is no "neutral" evaluation of the reliability of a piece of evidence. If one si
by Thrymr 3y ago
Expert witnesses are inherently adversarial, like the court system itself. There is no "neutral" evaluation of the reliability of a piece of evidence. If one side hires an expert to evaluate something, they are under no obligation to have the expert testify in court if the evaluation doesn't help their case.
- denton-scratch 3y ago> Expert witnesses are inherently adversarial In the UK, expert witnesses are "servants of the court". Sure, they're paid by one side or the other; but they're witnesses, and they're required to give true, unbiased testimony, on pain of a perjury charge. Is it not the same inthe USA?
- 0xffff2 3y agoThe gulf between truish, biased testimony and perjury is immense. The entire reason to have an expert witness giving testimony is that no one else in the courtroom is fully qualified to determine the truthfulness of the testimony.