State v. Cooperwood

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• expert opinion testimony on effectiveness of victim’s anti-hallucination medication relevant to defense theory, exclusion not error because not necessaiy for jury understanding of defense
• While the defendant must raise the affirmative defense, the State remains burdened to prove the crime beyond a reasonable doubt.
• example of such an analysis relating to the failure to give PIK Crim. 3d 52.08
• trial court has considerable discretion in determining whether to permit expert testimony
• defendant never has to prove himself not guilty

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).