Legal Opinion
In re: United States
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided August 5, 2010No. 10-2766PublishedCited by 10 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
POSNER, Circuit Judge.
On July 27, in response to the government’s renewed petition for a writ of mandamus, we issued an order granting the petition and directing the district court to admit into evidence in United States v. Hetrera, the criminal trial of Clacy Watson Herrera on drug charges, an exhibit labeled “Roberson Seizure 2”; to allow the government to recall Stephen Koop to testify at trial about the recovery of latent fingerprints from that exhibit; and to allow testimony regarding comparison of the latent prints with known fingerprints of the defendant. The judge had excluded the…
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