United States v. Bruce Watson AKA George Flamer, Bruce Watson

How courts have described this case

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

• collecting cases from the Second, Fifth, Eighth and Ninth Circuits holding “the operations of narcotics dealers [to be] a proper field of expertise”
• “[T]he operations of narcotics dealers have repeatedly been found to be a suitable topic for expert testimony because they are not within the common knowledge of the average juror.”
• “Rule 704(b) may be violated when the prosecutor’s question is plainly designed to elicit the expert's testimony about the mental state of the defendant, or when the expert triggers the application of Rule 704(b

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).