If scientific, technical, or other specialized knowledge will assist the trier of fact to understand the evidence or to determine a fact in issue, a witness qualified as an expert by knowledge, skill, experience, training, or education, may testify thereto in the form of an opinion or otherwise.
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 27-702
Rule 702. Testimony by experts; when
Applied in 145 court decisions — leading case State v. Copple (1987)
Most recently applied in 34 Neb. Ct. App. 34 - Gross v. GIKK Investments (February 2026)
Laws 1975, LB 279, § 50.
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