| 英文摘要 |
As Professor Thomas Weigend once mentioned, “Theoretically, the German system of court-appointed expert witnesses should make for a neutral, detached role of experts, in contrast to the “hired gun” syndrome in adversarial system.” However, expert witnesses in Taiwan are not presumed to play an advocate role in favor of one party as those in an accusatorial system. Since communication between expert witnesses and the trier of fact is basically different between these two criminal procedural approaches, this paper reviews the proposed Draft aiming to reform the expert evidence system in Taiwan from the perspective of the United States. Instead of adopting the proposed draft, this study suggests that the lawmakers should adopt the so-called “Blue Ribbon Expert Jury” to resolve all highly complex scientific or technical issues.
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