Rule 702. Testimony by Experts
If scientific, technical, or other specialized knowledge will assist the trier of fact to understand the evidence or to determine a fact in issue, a witness qualified as an expert by knowledge, skill, experience, training, or education, may testify thereto in the form of an opinion or otherwise, if (1) the testimony is based upon sufficient facts or data, (2) the testimony is the product of reliable principles and methods, and (3) the witness has applied the principles and methods reliably to the facts of the case.
(As amended Apr. 17, 2000, eff. Dec. 1, 2000.)
FEDERAL RULES OF EVIDENCE, DECEMBER 1, 2009, page 14.
See here and notes. See also the Daubert standard.
“Computer Forensics” is a term that gets its full sense in Federal Rules of Evidence, rule 702, being it included in the “reliable principles an methods” the rule refers in (2) and (3) when it comes to computer related evidence.
