Commonwealth v. Glyman

INTRODUCTION

The defendants are charged with offenses arising from alleged falsification of a will. The Commonwealth has indicated an intention to offer expert testimony at trial on the subject of handwriting comparison. The defendants seek to exclude such testimony on the ground that its reliability is not sufficiently established to meet the test of Commonwealth v. Lanigan, 419 Mass. 15 (1994), based on Daubert v. Merrell Dow Pharmaceuticals, 509 U. S. 579 (1993), as expanded in Canavan’s Case, 432 Mass. 304 (2000), based on Kumho Tire Co. v. Carmichael 526 U. S. 137 (1999). For the reasons…