{"data":{"id":"us-ky/kre-702","jurisdiction":"us-ky","citation":"KRE 702","heading":"Testimony by experts","body":"If scientific, technical, or other specialized knowledge will assist the trier of fact to\nunderstand the evidence or to determine a fact in issue, a witness qualified as an expert by\nknowledge, skill, experience, training, or education, may testify thereto  in the form of an\nopinion or otherwise, if:\n(1) The testimony is based upon sufficient facts or data;\n(2) The testimony is the product of reliable principles and methods; and\n(3) The witness has applied the principles and methods reliably to the facts of the case.","path":["KENTUCKY RULES OF EVIDENCE ----- Legislative Research Commission Note (7/1/92). Although denominated \"rules,\" the elements of the Kentucky Rules of Evidence were enacted as statutes by the Kentucky General Assembly. See 1990 Ky. Acts ch. 88; 1992 Ky. Acts ch. 324. Originally codified as KRS Chapter 422A in 1990, the Kentucky Rules of Evidence were renumbered by the Reviser of Statutes, effective July 1, 1992, pursuant to 1992 Ky. Acts ch. 324, sec. 34. By an order dated May 12, 1992, the Kentucky Supreme Court \"adopt[ed] so much of the Kentucky Rules of Evidence as enacted by HB 241 [1992 Ky. Acts ch. 324] as comes within the rule making power of the Court, pursuant to Ky. Const. sec. 116.\""],"source_url":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/law/statutes/statute.aspx?id=20402","current_through":"Includes enactments through the 2026 Regular Session","vintage":"09/05/2026","retrieved_at":"2026-09-05T21:00:10Z","sha256":"98b3b88691e13ba65b72e4ce7bd5e77a7d05e723fc16dd69115e4eb28c536a6b","source_id":"us-ky","stale":false,"prev":"us-ky/kre-701","next":"us-ky/kre-703"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}