United States v. Rodriguez-Felix

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• finding no abuse of discretion when the district court excluded testimony based on the \woefully inadequate\ report regarding proffered testimony
• finding no abuse of discretion in district court’s lack-of-relevance finding because “cross-examination amply exposed the common-sense deficiencies in the prosecution’s identification case”
• finding no abuse of discretion in exclusion of expert testimony where expert relied primarily on “generalized assertions regarding the factors which can affect an eyewitness’s identification”
• declining to allow an expert to testify where the proponent of the ev- idence did not meet his burden to show that the expert’s opinions sat- isfied the applicable standard
• examining for an abuse of discretion the exclusion of expert testimony on the basis of a report that was insufficient to allow assessment of the reasoning and methodology of the expert as a component of the district court’s application of Daubert
• examining for an abuse of discretion the exclusion of expert testimony on the basis of a report that was insufficient to allow assessment of the reasoning and methodology of the expert as a component of the district court's application of Daubert

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