Professor Imwinkelried Lectures on Scientific Evidence at Idaho Criminal Defense Lawyers Meeting
On Saturday, February 28, Professor Edward Imwinkelried lectured at a meeting of the Idaho Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers in Sun Valley, Idaho.
During his lecture, Professor Imwinkelried discussed a number of recent developments in the area of scientific evidence, including:
- the shift in California and Florida toward the Daubert empirical validation standard for the admission of expert testimony;
- the impact of Williams v. Illinois, 132 S.Ct. 2221 (2012) on the permissibility of experts' use ofout-of-court reports as bases for their opinions;
- the growing controversy over whether expert's point estimates of measured values have to be accompanied by arithmetic measures of uncertainty such as a statement of the estimate's confidence interval.
Professor Imwinkelried is a world-renowned evidence scholar and has published extensively in the field.