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The Supreme Court replaced the Daubert test with the Frye test.

The Frye test was criticized for being both too broad and too narrow.

The Frye test is sometimes known as the general acceptance test.

Case 14.2 ​Officer Antioch is investigating a disturbance in a large apartment building. The complainant says that the people in Apartment 103 won’t stop playing their music so loud that the complainant can’t sleep. Officer Antioch knocks on the door of Apartment 103 and Melissa answers the door. Officer Antioch is also overwhelmed by the loudness of the stereo system and asks Melissa to turn the stereo down. While he is standing in the hallway, Melissa jumps towards the coffee table that contains drug paraphernalia, grabs a bag of white powder, and rushes towards the bathroom. Officer Antioch believes Melissa is about to flush illegal drugs down the toilet and enters the apartment, but Melissa closes the bathroom door behind her. Officer Antioch then hears the distinctive sound of the toilet flushing. Melissa exits the bathroom as if nothing had happened.  Officer Antioch knows that possession of the drug paraphernalia is itself a felony, but just then Bob appears from an adjoining bedroom, grabs the drug paraphernalia from the coffee table and sprints out of the apartment. Officer Antioch sees Bob banging on the door of another apartment belonging to Charlie and Charlie admits Bob. Officer Antioch barges into Charlie’s apartment and arrests Bob, who is still holding the drug paraphernalia from Melissa’s apartment. He also arrests Melissa for the possession of drug paraphernalia.  Officer Antioch searches Bob and finds that he also has cocaine in his front pocket.Officer Antioch’s entry into Melissa’s apartment:

Under the Fourth Amendment, a person has been seized when a(n) _____ person under the circumstances would conclude that they are not free to leave.

Federal law allows secret taping of conversations as long as one of the parties to the conversation consents.

According to Kant’s ethical theory, if the consequences are extreme enough, it is sometimes necessary and even moral to tell a lie.  

Choose the four key claims of care ethics according to Stephanie Collins. Check all that apply. 

According to Warren, persons must possess certain capacities. Check all qualities that Warren argues can be used to determine personhood. (Note not all qualities are listed).  

To what point should we give to those in need, according to Singer?