In Re Detention of Palmer

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• establishing primary reason that legal conclusions are inadmissible is because they may be “misunderstood by the witness and the jury”
• committing as a sexually violent predator a respondent who suffered from pedophilia
• finding error harmless where issues discussed by expert witness were not disputed
• committing as a sexually violent predator a respondent who suffered from pedophilia
• “We also review a district court’s failure to give a jury instruction for an abuse of discretion.”
• “[A] witness cannot opine on a legal conclusion or whether the facts of the case meet a given legal standard.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).