Today is Sunday, 17th November 2024

Jamie Franks and the “expert” witness

Back in April 2006 Jamie Franks, wearing his plaintiffs lawyer hat this time, produced an “expert witness” in a personal injury case whose credentials as an “expert witness” were struck down by a sitting United States District Judge because Franks “expert witness”:

1) Had lost his license to practice medicine in Mississippi due to ethical and legal violations (and for that matter at the time was not licensed to practice in any other state for that matter)

2) Only qualifications that he had possessed were in the field of pediatrics, and not the case at hand (the plaintiff was not a child)

3) The expert’s methodology is unreliable under Rule 702 (Federal Rules of Evidence – ARTICLE VII. OPINIONS AND EXPERT TESTIMONY)

In short – Franks expert witness in this case was an unlicensed, unqualified, and untrained “expert” (an expert at nothing?). And in 2006 Jamie Franks knew all of this – yet he still attempted to trot out this witness. How do we know that you ask?

It’s really easy for us to connect the dots, and it should’ve been even easier for Jamie Franks to connect those dots because Franks was this “expert’s” lawyer before the Mississippi State Board of Medical Licensure in 2003.

Is this the type of honest, transparent and open leadership Mississippi needs at this critical point in history?

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