California, United States of America
The following excerpt is from People v. Daveggio, 231 Cal.Rptr.3d 646, 4 Cal.5th 790, 415 P.3d 717 (Cal. 2018):
also requires proof of expert qualifications to testify as to general acceptance and demonstration that correct scientific procedures were used in the particular case].)7 The Kelly "approach is intended to prevent lay jurors from being unduly influenced by procedures which seem scientific and infallible, but which actually are not." ( People v. Webb (1993) 6 Cal.4th 494, 524, 24 Cal.Rptr.2d 779, 862 P.2d 779 ; see People v. Stoll (1989) 49 Cal.3d 1136, 11551156, 265 Cal.Rptr. 111, 783 P.2d 698.)
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