Wenzel Williams v. State of Indiana

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• holding a detective's testimony that a \transaction for cocaine\ had occurred was a declaration of an ultimate opinion of the defendant's guilt, in violation of Rule 704(b)
• “Williams’s rights were not prejudiced by the erroneous evidentiary admission” where the record contained substantial, independent evidence of guilt to support the convictions.”
• testimony of detective who observed a controlled buy that “there’s zero doubt in my mind that that was a transaction for cocaine” was an “outright opinion of guilt” and thus inadmissible

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).