State v. We

¶1 This is an arson prosecution. The State’s expert arson investigator testified that the defendant burned her apartment for insurance fraud. No one objected or asked for a curative instruction at trial. Here on appeal, the defendant contends that this was an inadmissible opinion of her guilt and that this is an error of constitutional magnitude. We conclude that the opinion was an appropriate expert opinion. And the circumstantial evidence of the defendant’s culpability, even without the opinion, was sufficiently overwhelming to render any error, assuming error, harmless. We therefore affirm…