They have to be active managers of the reliability of evidence.

For example, people may judge the reliability of evidence by using the availability heuristic, i.e. how readily a particular idea comes to mind.

She said she had not participated in enough cases to judge the reliability of evidence from DNA analysis presented to courts.

The case is believed to involve the first serious challenge to the reliability of evidence based on a set of techniques known as DNA "fingerprinting."

In short, the most basic techniques our adversary system of justice employs for testing and assuring the reliability of evidence are completely missing in the grand jury context.

Consequently, a real anxiety prevailed about pre-emptive social work action in relation to the accuracy and reliability of evidence obtainable thereafter from the child witness, the alleged perpetrator or any corroborating witnesses.

In the United States Federal Court System validity and reliability of evidence is evaluated using the Daubert Standard: see Daubert v. Merrell Dow Pharmaceuticals.

A trial is a debate about the reliability of evidence and the ways in which that evidence should be stacked up: the historian, like the judge and jury, is concerned with evidence and interpretation.

In the 18 years since the Vasquez case, DNA testing has revolutionized forensic science and upended long-held notions about the reliability of evidence used routinely to convict people of crimes, including confessions.

He questioned the reliability of evidence given by former Iraqi Vice-President Taha Yassin Ramadan, stating that the circumstances of his captivity by American forces call into question the authenticity of the remarks.