Judge Permits Expert’s Child Sex Abuse Testimony Without Daubert Hearing

Mealey's (March 6, 2019, 4:55 PM EST) -- ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — With no evidence of unreliable or irrelevant testimony from an expert in a child sex abuse case about victim behavior, a Daubert hearing is not needed to determine the admissibility of the testimony, a New Mexico federal judge said March 4 (United States v. Arthur Perrault, No. 1:17-cr-02558, D. N.M., 2019 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 33871)....