Frye standard
The US legal test for admissibility of scientific evidence, originating from Frye v. United States (1923), which required that a technique be 'generally accepted' within its relevant scientific community. Replaced in federal courts by the Daubert standard (1993), which additionally requires peer review, known error rates, and methodological reliability.
Explained in these topics
- Forensic-Psychology Expert Witness and Daubert / Frye Challenges
- Expert Witness Testimony and Cognitive Bias Mitigation
- The Medico-Legal Expert in Court
- Standards, Accreditation and Admissibility in QDE
- Admissibility and Ethics: Daubert, Frye, R v. Doheny and ELSI
- Standards, Accreditation and Admissibility in Fire and Explosives
- Spectrographic Voiceprint History and Its Modern Rejection
- Standards, Accreditation and Admissibility in Fingerprint Evidence
- Polygraphy, PDD Methods and the US v. Scheffer Inadmissibility Frame
- Cognitive Bias, Expert Testimony and the 2009 NAS Critique
- Forensic Psychology: Foundations, History and Scope