amethyst221
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lol I wonder if the state can use this against the defense? Any lawyer out there know?
If Dr. Lee or any of the other experts testify for the defense at trial, then they can be fully cross-examined by the prosecutors. For every witness, credibility, possible bias, conflicts of interest, etc. are always at issue, along with the substance of their testimony. Experts are often asked, for example, how much they are being paid (and it sometimes is exorbitant in criminal cases), in order to try to show bias, that they are "hired guns." Surely it is relevant to credibility if, in a recent case, an expert was found by the court to have hidden or tampered with evidence from a crime scene. Lee never actually testified at the actual trial in Spector, and many speculated that it was because of the awful cross-examination he would have faced from A. Jackson, the prosecutor.