Some fire reconstruction evidence is insufficiently scientific and insufficiently reliable to pass muster under the requirements of Federal Rule of Evidence 702 or comparable State rules for the admissibility of scientific evidence.

Contributed in 2009 & last edited in 2009 by Peter Tillers
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