The Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation plans to open its lab for a rare weekend testing to accomodate expert witnesses hired by defense attorneys in the murder case against Clint Baker. Baker is accused of beating and cutting the throat of Todd Rich in March. The small amount of blood…
In Ten Ways to Torpedo Your Expert, Dr. Joni Johnston, President and CEO of Work Relationships, shares strategy on how to avoid “torpedoing” your expert witness. Strategy #1B: Avoid the expert who is biased in their presentation. Johnston describes two common pitfalls: 1) the use of treating clinicians and 2)…
In Ten Ways to Torpedo Your Expert, Dr. Joni Johnston, President and CEO of Work Relationships, gives strategy on how to avoid “torpedoing” your expert witness. Strategy #1A: Avoid bias. Don’t use a misguided bias in selecting the expert. Dr. Johnson describes one of the most common biases in expert…
Environmental expert witness Erwin Iskandar said Thursday that Sutiyoso’s Jakarta administration should be held responsible for the massive floods that crippled the city in February. Iskandar is the head of Trisakti University’s research institute and said the local administration should have been able to properly anticipate the February floods. The…
Fracturing her skull and suffering permanent disabilities while ice skating, a patron of the Ice House Skating Rink in Carey, NC, filed a liability suit against the rink. The expert witness in her case testified that the skating rink should have had an employee patrolling the ice to stop unruly…
Linda Moreno, defense lawyer for the Holy Land Foundation for Relief and Development, rested their case by asking the federal jury to look beyond what she described as “fear-mongering and politically motivated charges against a Muslim charity.” Much of closing arguments was spent trying to discredit the other side’s expert…
Buffalo, NY, attorney Joseph J. Marusak writes: This tribute is written to acknowledge the debt Western New York owes to Erie County’s former chief medical examiner. I first met Uku as a homicide prosecutor in the late 1980s…You soon learned that if Uku did the autopsy, there would be no…
Dr. Alex Zakharia, a Florida surgeon, admitted Tuesday to creating the impression that he was the lead surgeon for numerous coronary artery bypass grafts – when he had never performed such surgeries. The expert witness testified at the trial of a doctor accused of medical malpractice at the Ann Arbor…
In Prescription for Powerful Expert Testimony, Trial Magazine, May 2007, Deborah J. Gander advises to take these steps in order to get the most powerful testimony from your expert: 1) Make sure that your expert understands the legal elements that you have to prove in order to win your case.…
Accident reconstruction expert witness Glen Urquhart says Robert Farquharson, a man accused of killing his three sons by driving his car into a dam, would have steered the vehicle toward the water. The expert witness says Farquharson made three distinct steering movements before the car entered the dam at between…