· 1/18/1932
Ætna Life Ins. v. Bisbee
Citations
- 57 F.2d 1071
- 1932 U.S. App. LEXIS 4125
How courts have described this case
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- holding that trial court did not err in admitting testimony that drew its force from training and experience rather than “the mantle of science”
- holding that a DRE expert who completed 11 of the 12 DRE steps could testify that the defendant was under the influence of a narcotic analgesic
- recognizing officer’s qualification to offer nonscientific expert opinion of intoxication based on training and experience
- concluding that the officer “apart from his reference to independently admissible scientific tests — [did not] rely on the vocabulary of science, nor did he suggest that his conclusions had been reached through the application of a scientific method to collected data”
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