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· 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

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

  • 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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