Court Opinion

ID: 9618188
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-22 05:08:44.013499+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T09:43:17.996143
License: Public Domain

ZIMMERMAN, Justice
(concurring):
I join in the opinion of the majority. However, I also subscribe to the views expressed by Justice Durham in her separate concurrence. Although the majority opinion contains some language suggesting that the so-called “Frye test” is still the law, most of the rest of the opinion recognizes, I believe, that Frye’s traditional exclusive reliance on only one factor — general acceptance within the scientific community of a particular fact or procedure — has been displaced under Rule 702 and that “general acceptance” is only one of several factors that may be considered under Rule 702 to determine whether “scientific, technical, or other specialized knowledge will assist the trier of fact to understand the evidence or determine a fact in issue....” This is a development which was presaged in Justice Stewart’s opinion for the court in Phillips v. Jackson, 615 P.2d 1228, 1234 (Utah 1980).