Landa v. Tarushkin

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• expert testified that “teeth have unique characteristics of arrangement, shape, angle and size, and ... the odds against the characteristics found identifying [the] defendant being duplicated in any other persons’s mouth were ‘astronomical’”
• bite mark evidence is generally accepted as reliable because the techniques employed in rendering the opinion—such as photography, making dental molds, and visual observation—are accepted by majority of experts in the field
• bite mark evidence is generally accepted as reliable because the techniques employed in rendering the opinion— such as photography, making dental molds, and visual observation—are accepted by majority of experts in the field

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).