State v. Schofill

How courts have described this case

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• noting that a police officer not able to render an opinion that a “substance was in fact cocaine,” still possessed the expertise “to state that the substance ‘appeared to be cocaine’ ”
• police officer allowed to testify that what defendant gave him “appeared to be cocaine” because the officer had taken courses on drugs and cocaine, had purchased cocaine before and was familiar with its appearance

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).