Whether assorted other fields or methods are sufficiently scientific to satisfy the requirements of Federal Rule of Evidence 702 or a comparable State rule for the admissibility of scientific evidence

United States v. Rouse, 410 F.3d 1005, pin? (8th Cir. 2005) (aggravated sexual abuse against minors; exclusion of polygraph evidence offered by accused to support one child's recantation upheld: polygraph examiner's method did not conform to any accepted polygraph procedure).Polygraph test results are insufficiently reliable to be admissible.

United States v. McGuire, 307 F.3d 1192, 1205 (9th Cir. 2002) (upholding trial court's ruling which determined witness as unavailable under Rule 804(a)(4) and admitted her prior testimony because "risks in late pregnancy,....For purposes of the hearsay exceptions created by Federal Rule of Evidence 804 or a comparable State rule a declarant is "unavailable" within the meaning of Rule 804(b) or a comparable State rule if the declarant is unable to be present or to testify at the hearing because of death or then existing physical or mental illness or infirmity; but a declarant is not "unavailable" if the declarant's absence is due to the procurement or wrongdoing of the proponent of a statement for the purpose of preventing the witness from attending or testifying.

Cf. United States v. Mitchell, 172 F.3d 1104, 1107-1100 (9th Cir. 1999) (trial for armed bank robbery; "Mitchell (accused) argues that evidence of a defendant's poverty is not admissible to show motive, citing an evidence treatise by Wigmore and several cases from other circuits such as Davis v....Poverty is generally irrelevant to the question of the doing of an act (such as theft) by showing motive (such as desire for money) for the act.