Ruffin, B. v. Commonwealth

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• collecting cases and concluding STRmix satisfies federal rule of evidence 702 and is the “product of reliable principles and methods”
• “Rule 702…sets the framework for determining whether to admit scientific and other technical evidence…in…criminal cases.”
• “A district court concerned that the jury might misunderstand what the likelihood ratio means could require advocates to describe it in a way that will not generate unfair prejudice or mislead the jury.” (citation modified)
• “[P]ublication in a peer-reviewed journal alone typically satisfies this Daubert inquiry.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).