Jury instructions regarding expert witnesses are outlined in Oklahoma’s Uniform Jury Instructions, Civil Number 3.21. OKLA. UNIFORM JURY INSTR. CIVIL 3.21 (2015). This rule instructs the jury that while expert witnesses have a specialty expertise in a certain area, the jury should still consider the testimony and give it the credibility the jury feels it should be given. Id. Additionally, the jury is instructed that it is not “required to surrender [its] own judgment to that of any person testifying as an expert or otherwise.” Id. Expert testimony should be weighed and evaluated the same as any other witness’s testimony. Id.

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