People v. Williams

I join Justice Kirshbaum’s dissent. Chief Justice Quinn’s special concurrence points out the difficulty of determining from the record whether the trial judge’s ruling on the competency of Dr. Lantz to testify as an expert witness constituted an abuse of discretion. At 801. The court of appeals with a 2-1 division concluded that it was an abuse of discretion. People v. Williams, 761 P.2d 258 (Colo.App.1988). Our court is also divided in reviewing the foundation laid to qualify Dr. Lantz as a firearms expert.

*802Dr. Lantz had previously qualified and testified as an expert in firearms…