The Law Of Visual Evidence | Simulation

Simulation
Lally v. Volkswagen Aktiengesellschaft, 698 N.E.2d 28, 45 Mass.App.Ct. 317 (1998)
A brief animation, also used by McHenry to depict the result of a computer simulation of the movement of the vehicles and their occupants in the accident, was admissible.
Schaeffer v. General Motors Corporation, 372 Mass. 171 (1977)
Computer simulation science must be generally accepted by the scientific community.
Commercial Union Insurance Company v. Boston Edison, 412 Mass. 545 (1992)
Court allows admissibility of computer simulations in Massachusetts citing other jurisdictions that allow computer simulations or models to be used to assist the factfinder. SJC will treat computer generated models or simulations like other ...
Commonwealth v. Chipman, 635 N.E.2d 1204;418 Mass. 262 (1994)
Videotape simulation showing what the sniper likely observed at the moment he fired fatal shot admissible b/c it sheds light on malice aforethought, deliberate premeditation and extreme atrocity; videotaped demonstration admissible IF it ...

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