· 1/6/1930
Cucuzza v. Campbell
Citations
- 37 F.2d 31
- 1930 U.S. App. LEXIS 2490
How courts have described this case
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- finding that the expert testimony involving drug trafficking was permissible because “[n]one of the expert testimony in this case was admitted to demonstrate that Cordoba was guilty because he fit the characteristics of a certain drug courier profile”
- noting that testimony regarding drug traffickers’ practice of avoiding giving large amounts of cocaine to couriers who do not know what they are transporting was not drag courier profile evidence, but instead permissible MO evidence in a complex criminal case
- finding that polygraph tests are not per se inadmissible
- expert testimony as to why people typically hide guns in the engine compartments of their cars
- “Daubert overruled a per se rule excluding expert testimony regarding the credibility of eyewitness identification.”
- \the testimony was properly admitted to assist the jury in understanding modus operandi in a complex criminal case\
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Judges: Manton
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