Yell v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis
2007
Citation profile
1 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Daubert v. Merrell Dow Pharmaceuticals, Inc. · Kumho Tire Company, Ltd., et al. v. Patrick Carmichael, Etc., et al. · Arizona v. Fulminante · Maryland v. Craig · Commonwealth v. Benham
Most-quoted passages
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“uncorroborated canine accelerant alerts .,. to be novel scientific evidence, not generally accepted in the scientific community of arson investigators”). And the State has not shown how it might have”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
How this case has been treated — in progress
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