Daubert Challenge

[Michele]

Here's an interesting article.

https://www.thetimestribune.com/news/lo ... ede8a.html

This argument could just as easily be made in fingerprints. It's interesting to consider how any of us would defend against something like this, but also hard to really consider it without seeing the actual motion to exclude.

[Texas Pat]

It is interesting to note that the defense expert coaching the attack on firearms examinations is a member of the Forensic Science Standards Board (FSBB), the governing board of all the OSACs:

The defense called Dr. Jeff Salyards, a Principal Analyst with Compass Scientific Consulting and former Chief Scientist for the US Army Criminal Investigation Laboratory, as its expert witness.

In his testimony, Dr. Salyards raised concern on the validity of the peer-review process used by ballistic examiners, saying that until recently the firearms examination field did not use blind review studies. He also said that the error rate (under 2 percent on average) championed by the firearms examination field could be linked to the way studies surrounding the forensic science had been set up.

See the list of FSSB board members here:
https://www.nist.gov/osac/forensic-scie ... ards-board