West v. Rice

How courts have described this case

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• explaining that it was an error to allow a police chief’s testimony that implicitly conveyed his understanding that the defendant had acted unlawfully
• explaining that such an opinion is impermissible
• “As a general rule, an expert witness may not testify regarding a legal conclu- sion.”
• trial court committed non- harmless error by admitting as expert testimony police offi- cer’s statement that he saw “ ‘no elements of a crime being committed’ ”
• where defendant claimed self-defense, expert’s testimony that he “ ‘saw no ele- ments of a crime being committed [by the victim] * * * pro- vided an impermissible legal conclusion with respect to [the victim’s] conduct during the altercation”

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