In what has turned out to be a landmark decision, the Court ruled in Daubert that federal trial judges must act as gatekeepers in order to
exclude unreliable evidence from the courtroom.
Not exact matches
Do you mean by this «DNA
evidence with so little match as you propose would be
excluded as
unreliable» if DNA report tells about 80 % probability match would be
excluded?
Explicitly citing the Innocence Network Brief, the Court held that Oregon's previous standard for the admissibility of eyewitness identifications (i.e. the Classen test) was «insufficient to ensure that
unreliable evidence will be
excluded» (24).