Legal Opinion
Benn v. United States
District of Columbia Court of Appeals
Decided September 3, 2009No. 03-CF-946PublishedCited by 51 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
RUIZ, Associate Judge:
Raymond Benn appeals his convictions, after a second jury trial, for the armed kidnapping of Charles “Sean” Williams on December 1, 1992. This appeal raises an issue we have grappled with before, the admission of expert testimony on the potential unreliability of eyewitnesses. For the first time, however, we do not affirm the trial court’s exclusion of the proffered expert testimony. In excluding the expert testimony proffered by appellant, the trial court applied incorrect legal principles. It came dangerously close to employing a per se rule of exclusion and made a…
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