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The problem is not the company per se but the fact that the government is allowed to get away with having an "expert witness" testify in court with no supportin
by pdonis 3y ago
The problem is not the company per se but the fact that the government is allowed to get away with having an "expert witness" testify in court with no supporting evidence about something like this. The government should be required to produce, and keep up to date, positive evidence about the accuracy of such systems, collected independently of the manufacturer.
- chaps 3y agoYou'd think so, right? At least when I was researching all of this last year, absolutely no accuracy testing had been done in Chicagoland.
- Buttons840 3y agoCan the defense have an "expert witness" refute the claims? There's also the issue of jury selection. If a potential juror seems like they might question faulty statistics, for example, and the prosecutors know they will be presenting some statistics, that juror wont be selected.
- pdonis 3y ago> Can the defense have an "expert witness" refute the claims? Yes, but the defense witness can make unsupported claims in the opposite direction. Neither "expert witness" is required to actually support their testimony. > There's also the issue of jury selection. Yes, definitely. Someone else upthread mentioned that too.