United States v. Lewis A. Zipkin

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• holding that the permitting of expert testimony on a question of bankruptcy law was reversible error because it is impermissible for a judge to delegate the function of determining the law of a case to the jury
• holding it impermissible for a trial judge to delegate the determination of the law of the case to the jury
• holding it impermissible for a trial judge to delegate determining the law of the case to the jury
• finding that it was prejudicial error for district court to allow bankruptcy judge to testify as an expert witness to a legal conclusion
• noting in dicta that to establish motive for a theft offense by demonstrating impecuni-osity of defendant requires a chain of inferences that is highly speculative and therefore of little probative value
• “Expert testimony on the law is excluded because the trial judge does not need the judgment of witnesses.”

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