Court Opinion

ID: 9713114
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-26 05:08:25.253052+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T18:23:16.721057
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*116GARRARD, Presiding Judge,
concurring.
I concur with the majority but write separately because of a question that may arise on retrial.
Under the Frye1 standard, one of the prerequisites to eliciting expert opinion testimony is that the scientific principle or discovery upon which the expert relies for his conclusions must be sufficiently established to have gained general acceptance in the scientific community in that field.
In other words, if on retrial Ulrich again seeks to utilize Dr. Frank's testimony, a part of the necessary foundation for doing so would require that he establish that the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory test is generally accepted in the field of psychology as a valid indicator of the conclusions sought to be drawn from its administration to Ulrich.

. Frye v. United States (D.C.Cir.1923), 293 F. 1013.