title: Ten years after Daubert: the status of the states.
abstract: This paper examines how many of the states have changed their respective scientific-evidence admissibility standards under the influence of the United States Supreme Court's 1993 Daubert decision. The authors offer a definition of what constitutes a Daubert state, and using this definition classify the fifty states into three categories. These are: Frye states (15 states, 10 with codified evidence rules patterned after the Federal Rules of Evidence (FRE)); Daubert states (26 states, 24 with FRE-based rules), and non-Frye/non-Daubert states (9 states, 7 with FRE-based rules). The authors discuss how the reliability requirement varies among the non-Frye states, and examine how particular types of evidence have fared in the Daubert era. Finally, the authors offer some predictions for the scientific evidence trends of the states.
authors.affiliation: MTC Forensics, Peaks Island, ME 04108, USA.
authors.forename: Joseph A
authors.initials: JA
authors.lastname: Keierleber
authors.forename: Thomas L
authors.initials: TL
authors.lastname: Bohan
mesh_terms: D005104:Expert Testimony / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence*; D044707:Forensic Sciences / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence*; D033161:Government Regulation; D006801:Humans; D012586:Science / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence*; D013219:State Government; D035521:Supreme Court Decisions; D014481:United States