Court Opinion

ID: 9733545
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-26 17:10:18.340934+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T18:26:42.258835
License: Public Domain

NEWMAN, Senior Judge,
concurring:
I join the opinion of Judge Belson fully. I write separately to state my view that it is time for this court to reevaluate the entire area of our treatment of opinion and expert testimony and to substitute therefore Article VII of the Federal Rules of Evidence. Likewise, in the area of expert scientific testimony, we should join those courts, both federal, see, e.g., United States v. Downing, 753 F.2d 1224 (3d Cir.1985) and state, see, e.g., State v. Williams, 388 A.2d 500 (Me.1978) which reject Frye v. United States, 54 App.D.C. 46, 293 F. 1013 (1923) as the appropriate test to evaluate the admissibility of “novel” scientific evidence. Like those courts, we should replace the Frye test with one focusing on relevance and reliability.