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Expert Evidence, Samuel R. Gross
Expert Evidence, Samuel R. Gross
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It seems that the use of expert witnesses in common law courts has always been troublesome. In his Treatise on the Law of Evidence, first published in 1848, Judge John Pitt Taylor describes several classes of witnesses whose testimony should be viewed with caution, including: enslaved people (which accounts for "the lamentable neglect of truth, which is evinced by most of the nations of India, by the subjects of the Czar, and by many of the peasantry in Ireland"); women (because they are more susceptible to "an innate vain love of the marvelous"); and "foreigners and others ... living out …
Expert Testimony On The Batered Woman Syndrome In Maryland, Jeanne-Marie Bates
Expert Testimony On The Batered Woman Syndrome In Maryland, Jeanne-Marie Bates
Maryland Law Review
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