Direct Examination of Expert Witnesses at Trial

As the Supreme Court has noted, “expert evidence can be both powerful and quite misleading because of the difficulty in evaluating it.” Daubert v. Merrell Dow Pharms., Inc., 509 U.S. 579, 595 (1993). “Indeed, no other kind of witness is free to opine about a complicated matter without any firsthand knowledge of the facts in the case, and based upon otherwise inadmissible hearsay[.]” United States v. Frazier, 387 F.3d 1244, 1260 (11th Cir. 2004). Harnessing expert testimony to make it “p... More Info