A Guide to Forensic Testimony: The Art and Practice of Presenting Testimony as an Expert Technical Witness
Fred Chris Smith, Rebecca Gurley Bace · Addison-Wesley Professional · First edition · 2002
Identifier: ISBN 978-0-201-75279-3
Access and status
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Status
Current
Current as at the verification date below. Standards and tools both move — confirm at source before you rely on it.
What it is
A book for technologists who are about to testify: how the gatekeeping standards work, how to establish and defend qualifications, how to present technical material to a lay fact-finder, and where technical witnesses habitually lose credibility.
Who it is for, and when
Read it before a first deposition or a first Daubert challenge. It is written by a lawyer and a technologist together, and it is unusually direct about the ways a competent examiner still makes a bad witness — overclaiming, refusing to concede, and answering a question nobody asked.
What it does not cover
The legal framing is early post-Daubert and pre-dates the 2023 amendment to Federal Rule of Evidence 702 and two decades of digital-evidence case law, so treat every legal proposition as needing current authority. Its case studies (the Microsoft antitrust deposition, the Mitnick investigation) are historical, and there is no digital forensics technique content at all.
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Details
- Type
- Book
- Written for
- Lawyers and courtsWorking examinerLawyers and courts, Working examiner
- Author
- Fred Chris Smith, Rebecca Gurley Bace
- Publisher
- Addison-Wesley Professional
- Version verified
- First edition
- Year
- 2002
- Identifier
- ISBN 978-0-201-75279-3
- Topics
- expert-testimony, legal-admissibility, reporting
- Checked at source
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