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· 3/20/2015

United States v. Habibi

Citations

  • 783 F.3d 1
  • 96 Fed. R. Serv. 1415
  • 2015 U.S. App. LEXIS 4613
  • 2015 WL 1263146

How courts have described this case

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

  • holding that a Federal Bureau of Investigation special agent could testify that he investigated a case where “an individual touched . . . a[n] object with a bare hand, but when tested, no detectable DNA was found”
  • concluding it was not an - 41 - abuse of discretion to permit an agent to offer lay testimony when the testimony was based on the agent's \experience as a federal law enforcement officer\
  • permitting FBI agent to testify that detectible DNA is not left every time someone touches an object

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Judges: Barron, Selya, Stahl

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