248 N.C. App. 639 - State v. Abrams’s Empirical Analysis

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2 state decisions

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1. “The trial court has the discretion to determine whether or when special briefing or other proceedings are needed to investigate reliability. A trial court may elect to order submission of affidavits, hear voir dire testimony, or conduct an in limine hearing.... In simpler cases, however, the area of testimony may be sufficiently common or easily understood that the testimony's foundation can be laid with a few questions in the presence of the jury.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. State v. Mayes

2. “Id. at 152 , 119 S.Ct. 1167 . Those factors are part of a”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 250 N.C. App. 238 - State v. Hunt