Legal Opinion
United States v. Eric Christian
Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Decided April 17, 2014No. 12-10202PublishedCited by 16 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
FISHER, Circuit Judge.
Eric Leon Christian appeals his conviction for two counts of transmitting through interstate commerce email communications containing threats to injure the person of another. He argues that the district court should have allowed his expert, a psychologist who had earlier examined him for *808competency to stand trial, to testify regarding his diminished capacity defense and that he was entitled to a jury instruction on diminished capacity even without such expert testimony.
We hold that the district court abused its discretion by excluding Christian’s expert solely…
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