Daubert Doesn’t Look Much Different from Howerton When it Comes to Retrograde Extrapolation

Published for NC Criminal Law on September 09, 2015.

The court of appeals gave the green light last week for law enforcement officers to continue to testify as scientific experts in DWI cases involving retrograde extrapolation–notwithstanding the legislature’s amendment of Rule 702 to adopt the Daubert standard. The court held in State v. Turbyfill that a field technician for the Forensic Test for Alcohol ... Read more

The post Daubert Doesn’t Look Much Different from Howerton When it Comes to Retrograde Extrapolation appeared first on North Carolina Criminal Law.