Jury instructions regarding expert witnesses are outlined in Kansas’s Pattern Jury Instructions, Civil rule 102.50. PATTERN INSTR. KAN. CIVIL 102.50 (2016). This rule allows experts to testify as to their opinions on matters that are within their area of expertise. Id. The jury is instructed to evaluate expert testimony the same way that it is supposed to evaluate testimony from other witnesses. Id. Additionally, the jury should consider each expert’s testimony in “connection with all the other facts and circumstances.” Id. Once the testimony is considered, the jury should “give it the weight and credit [it] determine[s] [is] appropriate.” Id.
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