The topic of personal liability for forensic expert witnesses has been around for a couple of decades. I am not talking about an expert being sued by his/her client for negligent actions in the course of the employment (traditionally this is a simple tort claim based on the accused expert’s professional incompetence). FORENSIC experts in criminal courts have traditionally been considered “friends of the court” when speaking their minds on about evidence and their conclusions. Courts have allowed experts to claim whatever they feel is their “truth” on a criminal forensic matter with impunity. Regardless of the possibility of loss of life and liberty. Much like Radley Balko’s 8-01-2013 monograph on the protections for prosecutors travels into unethical methods and strategies, forensic experts have been riding the same coat tails by some sort of association or relationship. I suppose the higher courts interpretation by ruling in favor of expert immunity…