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Pros And Cons Of The Daubert Standard

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The best set of standards in reference to expert witness admissibility for the state of Florida is to follow an amended version of the Daubert standard, which is considered to be a mixture of Federal Rules of Evidence, Rule 702 with The Daubert Standard. This standard renders a better working solution to the original ‘general acceptance’ method of the Frye standard in the 1920’s. It allows the judge to be more of a referee in regards to information, it allows only trustworthy, qualified experts to take the stand, it requires a witness to be proficient in knowledge, training, skill, experience or education before they can give their expert opinion, and it does not allow misleading testimony on the facts of a case. In Frye v. United States,

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