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The Problem with Empirical Examination of the Use of Court-appointed Experts: A Report of Non-findings

✍ Scribed by Anthony Champagne; Daniel W. Shuman; Elizabeth Whitaker

Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
Year: 1996
Tongue: English
Weight: 302 KB
Volume: 14
Category: Article
ISSN: 0735-3936
DOI: 10.1002/(sici)1099-0798(199622)14:3<361::aid-bsl245>3.0.co;2-v

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✦ Synopsis

This study was designed to examine the use of courtappointed experts as an alternative to privately retained experts in Dallas, Texas. Surprisingly, there has been little empirical study of court-appointed experts. Our Endings suggest one reason for the lack of research. We found that court-appointed experts are used so inf+equently that it makes empirical study difficult to conduct. We discuss the implications on this problem for future research.

"[Iln virtually any case, I can find a psychiatric wimess to make whatever recommendation I want."' "It is slightly mysterious that it should be thought that experts are venal mountebanks when engaged by the parties but transformed into paragons of objectivity when employed by the c o ~r t s . " ~

I. INTRODUCTION

Those who conclude that the system for presentation of expert testimony is broken propose three alternative, overlapping solutions to fix it. One alternative solution is to raise the threshold standard for scrutinizing the admissibility of expert te~timony.~ A second solution proposed is to use court-appointed rather than '

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