Legal Opinion
In re L.C.
District of Columbia Court of Appeals
Decided June 5, 2014No. 10-FS-709PublishedCited by 18 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
GLICKMAN, Associate Judge:
This is an appeal from a delinquency adjudication after a bench trial on charges arising out of an attempted carjacking. The case against L.C. rested on the complainant’s identifications of him shortly after the crime occurred and a month later at trial. L.C. claims the trial court erred in precluding him from presenting expert testimony on relevant psychological factors bearing on the reliability of such eyewitness identifications. We agree that the court erred in ruling that the proffered testimony was not “beyond the ken” of the average layperson without…
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