Expert Witness

Authors: Harris, Charles E. ; Pritchard, Michael S. ; Rabins, Michael J.
Publication Type: Case Study
Abstract: You are an engineering who is well known as an expert witness and receive a call who wants to hire your services on behalf of a reclusive inventor. Later that day, you are called b ya prosecutor working a case against that same inve...
Year: 2000
URL: http://www.bsyse.wsu.edu/pitts/be120/Handouts/cases/case64.htm

Authors: Harris, Charles E. ; Pritchard, Michael S. ; Rabins, Michael J.
Publication Type: Case Study
Abstract: W. Lynn Beason is an engineer who specializes in window safety, and often serves as a consultant or expert witness. He regards himself as a public safety advocate, and approaches these cases by telling potential clients that rather ...
Year: 2000
URL: http://www.bsyse.wsu.edu/pitts/be120/Handouts/cases/case54.htm

Authors: Rabins, Michael J. ; Pritchard, Michael S. ; Harris, Charles E.
Publication Type: Case Study
Abstract: When engineer Gregory Green is hired by an attorney to investigate the cause of a workplace accident that befell the attorney's client, Gregory is not invited to testify as an expert witness. Gregory is sure that they would win the ...
Year: 2000
URL: http://wadsworth.com/philosophy_d/templates/student_resources/0534605796_harris/cases/Cases/case57.htm

Authors: Rabins, Michael J. ; Pritchard, Michael S. ; Harris, Charles E.
Publication Type: Case Study
Abstract: An engineer working as an expert witness discovers that his preliminary analysis as two why several people were injured because of an exploding glass tank of water is most likely wrong. Should he volunteer his new analysis to the at...
Year: 2000
URL: http://wadsworth.com/philosophy_d/templates/student_resources/0534605796_harris/cases/Cases/case58.htm

Authors: Simon, Leonore ; Sales, Bruce Dennis
Publication Type: Journal Article
Secondary Title: Ethics and Behavior
Abstract: We examined the dilemmas posed by the involvement of expert witnesses in court cases and the institutional constraints on the ethics of expert testimony. The causes for the incorporation of bad science into legal decisions, potentia...
Year: 1993
DOI: 10.1207/s15327019eb0303&4_2

Authors: Greenberg, Stuart A. ; Shuman, Daniel W.
Publication Type: Journal Article
Secondary Title: Professional Psychology: Research and Practice
Abstract: The legal system and the profession of psychology have differing expectations that cause psychologists who serve as expert witnesses to face fundamental conflicts. The rules of evidence demand that experts assist the trier of fact, ...
Year: 2003
DOI: 10.1037/0735-7028.34.3.219

Authors: Woody, Robert Henley
Publication Type: Journal Article
Secondary Title: Ethics & Behavior
Abstract: Attorneys increasingly rely on the services of mental health practitioners. Although some practitioners lack training, the promise of professional rewards lead some to accept opportunities with resulting ethical quandaries. Due to s...
Year: 2009
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DOI: 10.1080/10508420802623690

Authors: Richards, E. P. ; Walter, C.
Publication Type: Journal Article
Secondary Title: Engineering in Medicine and Biology Magazine, IEEE
Abstract: Expert witness testimony is essential to all legal proceedings that involve technical, medical, professional, or scientific matters. More generally, experts must testify whenever the underlying matters are beyond the common knowledg...
Year: 2000
DOI: 10.1109/51.827414

Authors: Kolodinsky, Jane
Publication Type: Journal Article
Secondary Title: Journal of Consumer Affairs
Abstract: This commentary gives an insider's view of an expert witness experience, followed by attorney Seth Richard Lesser's response with some of the rules of the expert witness road and what anyone needs to expect if planning to take on ex...
Year: 2010
DOI: 10.1111/j.1745-6606.2010.01187_1.x

Authors: Lux, William J.
Publication Type: Book
Abstract: Engineers may become involved in litigation for various reasons, including product liability and accident investigation cases. This volume seeks to enable engineers to do a proper and professional job when dealing with matters of li...
Year: 1995

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Authors: Fletcher, John C.
Publication Type: Journal Article
Secondary Title: Journal of Medicine and Philosophy
Abstract: This article reflects on the author's modest experience as an expert witness in two trials: 'Osheroff vs. Greenspan' (1983) and 'In the Matter of Baby K' (1994). Bioethicists' expertise as scholar-teachers and consultants on particu...
Year: 1997
DOI: 10.1093/jmp/22.4.297

Authors: Kipnis, Kenneth
Publication Type: Journal Article
Secondary Title: Journal of Medicine and Philosophy
Abstract: The aim of this essay is to describe and reflect upon the concrete particulars of one academician's work as an expert ethics witness. The commentary on my practices and the narrative descriptions of three cases are offered as eviden...
Year: 1997
DOI: 10.1093/jmp/22.4.325

Authors: Agich, George J. ; Spielman, Bethan J.
Publication Type: Journal Article
Secondary Title: Journal of Medicine and Philosophy
Abstract: There is great skepticism about the admittance of expert normative ethics testimony into evidence. However, a practical analysis of the way ethics testimony has been used in courts of law reveals that the skeptical position is itsel...
Year: 1997
DOI: 10.1093/jmp/22.4.381

Authors: Borenstein, Jason
Publication Type: Journal Article
Secondary Title: International Journal of Applied Philosophy
Abstract: Our courts are regularly confronted with the claims of expert witnesses. In this paper, several philosophical issues pertaining to expertise will be discussed, including what expertise is, why we rely on experts, what measures can b...
Year: 2002

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Authors: Burns, S. L.
Publication Type: Journal Article
Secondary Title: Human Studies: A Journal for Philosophy and the Social Sciences
Abstract: This paper explores how scientific knowledge is used in a criminal case. I examine materials from an admissibility hearing in a murder trial and discuss the dynamics of contesting expert scientific opinion and evidence. The research...
Year: 2008
DOI: 10.1007/s10746-008-9081-1