United States v. Lorenzo Garcia

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• concluding that Congress intended § 3509(b)(1)(B) to \codify[] - 37 - the requirement in Craig that the child be unable to testify in open court due to the presence of the defendant\
• concluding expert witness’s “lack of particularized expertise goes to the weight accorded to her testimony, not to the admissibility of her opinion as an expert”
• concluding expert witness’s “lack of particularized expertise goes to the weight 23 accorded to her testimony, not to the admissibility of her opinion as an expert”
• concluding expert 6 witness’s “lack of particularized expertise goes to the weight accorded to her testimony, not to the 7 admissibility of her opinion as an expert”
• articulating that, in approving use of closed- circuit testimony, the district court should determine that “the child’s emotional trauma [is] such that he or she cannot reasonably communicate in the defendant’s presence”
• allowing an 4 expert in children’s mental health to testify despite lacking specific expertise on the subject of 5 child testimony through closed circuit television

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).