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Episode 5: The Sanchez Problem

Against the Rules with Michael Lewis

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Did the Expert Witnesses Overstate Their Testimony?

The fbi pulled a bunch of its transcripts from its own experts and said, we're going to go through these transcripts and see if they testified erroneously. In 96% of cases the fbi found that expert witnesses overstate their level of certainty. The lawyers try to make you do it. I mean, they want the expert to say they're certain. If theyre experts as screwing up in this way, it's hard to imagine that most other experts aren't as well. Qarts have relied on a new kind of expert, the gang expert. For 30 years, that expert has almost always been a police officer,. And this officer almost always testifies that he's sure

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