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3. Experts

“I can’t guarantee that he had an aneurysm,” the Harvard neuropathologist told
me, “but I can guarantee that if he had one
I will find it.” These are the words of an expert. Experts are those to whom we throw
pieces of the puzzle with the hope that they
will put them neatly together. The trial lawyer must first envision the puzzle’s solution,
but, in fairness, it is the expert upon whom
we rely to make certain that the pieces fit.
Even more—they