United States v. Jorge Alberto Alatorre

U.S. Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit · Decided 2000-08-16

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McKEOWN, Circuit Judge: The question in this case is whether the district court must hold a separate hearing before trial, as opposed to making an evi-dentiary determination during trial, in order to fulfill the “gatekeeping” function outlined in the Supreme Court’s trilogy of cases addressing the admissibility of expert testimony: Daubert v. Merrell Dow Pharmaceutical…

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