United States v. Wantuch

How courts have described this case

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• holding that the question of whether the defendant knew his actions were legal “demanded a conclusion as to the legality of [the defendant’s] conduct, which is unhelpful to the jury under Rule 701”
• “Attempts to introduce meaningless assertions which amount to little more than choosing up sides require exclusion for lack of helpfulness by Rule 701.”
• “We have held that lay opinion testimony regarding mental states is admissible under Rule 701.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).