Opinion No.

The Honorable Stanley Russ State Senator P.O. Box 787 Conway, Arkansas 72032

Dear Senator Russ:

This is in response to your request for an opinion, on behalf of Mr. Roger Brown, Director of The Project to End Child Abuse Hysteria, regarding admissibility of certain types of expert testimony in child abuse cases. In the correspondence attached to your request, Mr. Brown references Daubert v. Merrell DowPharmaceuticals, Inc., 509 U.S., 125 L.Ed.2d 469, 113 S.Ct. 2786 (1993), and he poses the following questions, which I have restated in part, with regard to this case:

1. Please review the Daubert…