· 6/14/1993
United States v. Robert Melvin Harris
Citations
- 995 F.2d 532
- 1993 U.S. App. LEXIS 13745
- 1993 WL 198912
How courts have described this case
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- discussing circumstances in which it may be an abuse of discretion to exclude expert testimony
- reliability of identification causes greater concern where case “involves one identification, by one witness, under stress”
- \The exclusion of expert testi- mony under Rule 702 is within the sound discretion of the trial judge.\
- “[A]ny discrepancies in these testimonies were brought out or could have been brought out on cross-examination.”
- recognized such evidence admissible under “narrow” circumstances
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Judges: Williams, Sprouse
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