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State v. Brooks

Citations

  • 643 A.2d 226
  • 162 Vt. 26
  • 1993 Vt. LEXIS 184

How courts have described this case

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

  • adopting Daubert as the applicable standard for admitting scientific evidence under V.R.E. 702
  • adopting the holding of Daubert as a part of Vermont law
  • “In the absence of a specific legislative sanction, it is improper to infer consequences not provided in the statute.”
  • compliance with statutory rulemaking requirement is mandatory only to extent that State wishes to benefit from presumption of validity provided by 23 V.S.A. § 1203
  • five-percent-deviation rule is laboratory calibration requirement, not field performance criterion
  • adopting Daubert as the standard for reviewing expert testimony

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Judges: Allen, Gibson, Dooley, Morse, Johnson

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