Legal Opinion
People v. Kowalski
Michigan Supreme Court
Decided July 30, 2012No. Docket 141932PublishedCited by 87 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
*110MARY Beth Kelly, J.
This case requires that we determine whether expert witness testimony regarding interrogation techniques and psychological factors claimed to generate false confessions is admissible under MRE 702 and MRE 403 and whether exclusion of this testimony violates the Sixth Amendment right to present a defense. The circuit court excluded the testimony of two experts regarding the occurrence of false confessions and the police interrogation techniques likely to generate them as well as the psychological characteristics of defendant that allegedly made him more susceptible to these…
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