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| Author: | Old6rodder [ Wed Sep 19, 2012 7:26 pm ] |
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Quote: Heinlein's "fair witness" was a bit different, as I recall:
Yep, a function of his job was to eliminate assumption and supposition from his testimony (Heinlein liked the idea enough to use it in a couple of later stories as well).Ask someone, looking at a barn, what color (red) the barn is. The usual answer would be "red", but the "fair witness" answers "the side that I can see is red". The primary difference between today's use of "expert" testimony and the extrapolated "fair witness" concept would be that the fair witness was strictly to be used as direct observation, and the expert witness today (seems to me) is used mostly to validate arguments based on points assumed to be out of the jury's knowlege base. |
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