Commonwealth v. Montavo

How courts have described this case

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• concluding that a trooper’s expert testimony that the “appellant’s and his co-defendant’s travels to drug trafficking areas indicated that they were involved in narcotics dealing … was beyond the scope of [the] [t]rooper[’s] … qualification as an expert”
• holding it improper to present expert testimony that defendant’s travel to drug trafficking areas indicated involvement in selling narcotics
• “Significantly, expert testimony should not invite the jury to abdicate its responsibility to ascertain and assess the facts and, instead, defer to the expert’s opinion.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).