Wednesday, December 22, 2004

England Announces Review of Child Death Cases

BBC News is reporting that after a review of nearly 300 cases in which British parents were charged with the deaths of children under two years of age, the cases of 28 will be revisited. The review focused on convictions entirely or primarily reliant on testimony by prosecution medical experts. Controversy over such cases has been raging in Great Britain for some time, partly because of the heated debate over testimony on Munchausen's Syndrome by Proxy offered by Sir Roy Meadow and his disciples. The full report of the Attorney General can be found here.

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Fed. R. Evid. 702: If scientific, technical, or other specialized knowledge will assist the trier of fact to understand the evidence or to determine a fact in issue, a witness qualified as an expert by knowledge, skill, experience, training, or education, may testify thereto in the form of an opinion or otherwise, if (1) the testimony is based upon sufficient facts or data, (2) the testimony is the product of reliable principles and methods, and (3) the witness has applied the principles and methods reliably to the facts of the case.