In re Gina D.

Cressey, 137 N.H. 402, 628 A.2d 696 (1993), was confined to a criminal proceeding decided by a jury, I respectfully dissent. I am of the firm opinion that in abuse and neglect proceedings our superior court can separate the wheat from the chaff in accepting or rejecting an expert’s conclusion.

New Hampshire has historically had one of the most liberal rules in the country as to the qualification of an expert and the acceptance of the expert’s conclusion as to an ultimate question of fact. See Dowling v. Shattuck, 91 N.H. 234, 236, 17 A.2d 529, 532 (1941); Higgins v. Carroll, 86 N.H. 312, 315,…