Key legal question
Whether expert X had to be rejected for lack of expertise based only on the defendant’s objection.
Extracted holding
No. Unless statutory grounds for recusal or disqualification exist, the court is not bound to consider only one party’s objections to the appointment of an expert; the expert’s competence is a matter of evidentiary assessment and the judge remains free to choose the expert.
Extracted reasoning
The mere fact that one party raises objections does not compel the court to disregard the appointment. The sufficiency of an expert’s knowledge is an issue of evaluation of evidence, not a mandatory ground for disqualification.