State v. Rodolfo Dominguez, Jr.

OPINION

JANE BLAND, Justice.

In this capital murder case, the State seeks to introduce the testimony of its expert witness who opines that his three dogs have identified the defendant’s scent to be present on items recovered from the crime scene, based on a later police-constructed scent-discrimination lineup. The State challenges the trial court’s pretrial ruling excluding this testimony as unreliable. The State contends that the trial court abused its discretion in excluding the scent-discrimination testimony because the court’s material findings of fact are unsupported by the record, and the…