Parvin v. State

KITCHENS, Justice,

for the Court:

¶ 1. David W. Parvin appeals his murder conviction, characterizing his arguments as “a Weathersby case with a Daubert twist.”1 Parvin maintains that his wife’s death was caused by accident, and the State’s principal evidence refuting his defense at trial consisted of expert testimony, accompanied by a computer-generated reconstruction of the scene of her demise. The State argued that the experts’ opinions about the physical evidence proved the victim was intentionally killed. Although we find no merit in Parvin’s Weath-ersby claim, we agree that certain expert…