United States v. Michael Robert Perkins

Affirmed by published opinion. Judge WILLIAMS wrote the opinion, in which Judge GREGORY and Judge JOHNSTON joined.

OPINION

WILLIAMS, Circuit Judge:

Michael Perkins, a Petersburg, Virginia city police officer, was convicted by a jury of kicking and causing bodily injury under color of law to Lamont Koonce, a motorist stopped for a traffic violation who fled from the police, thus willfully depriving Koonce of his constitutional right to be free from unreasonable force, a felony 1 under 18 U.S.C.A. § 242 (West 2000). Perkins challenges both the admission of opinion evidence at trial and the…