Legal Proceedings and the Expert Witness

This chapter will discuss how forensic science by nature requires not only conducting a test in a well-documented scientific manner, but also presents the results and the significance of such testing in legal or administrative proceedings. The chapter will discuss legal proceedings and the need for an expert witness, financial witness fees, law of evidence, burden of proof, and evidence. The chapter also details with the different types of evidence that may be utilized in legal proceedings as well as the admissibility of such evidence. The chapter also reviews and explains what one might expect if they are subpoenaed for testimony in a legal proceeding in terms of direct, examination, cross-examination and re-direct examination. The chapter gives an overall thorough presentation of what one might encounter in a legal proceeding.

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• Corporate Authors:

  Lawyers & Judges Publishing Company, Incorporated

  P.O. Box 30040
  Tucson, AZ  United States  85751-0040
• Authors:
  • Caplan, Yale H
  • Goldberger, Bruce A
• Publication Date: 2008

Language

• English

Media Info

• Media Type: Print
• Edition: Fifth
• Pagination: pp 423-436
• Monograph Title: Garriott's Medicolegal Aspects of Alcohol

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Alcohol effects; Alcohol tests; Alcohol use; Blood alcohol levels; Highway safety; Human factors in crashes; Legal action; Legal factors; Witnesses
• Subject Areas: Highways; Law; Safety and Human Factors; I83: Accidents and the Human Factor;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01164965
• Record Type: Publication
• ISBN: 9781933264585
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Aug 16 2010 9:11AM