Legal Opinion
Jefferson v. Davis
District Court, N.D. Illinois
Decided June 12, 1990No. 88 C 1872PublishedCited by 4 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MEMORANDUM OPINION AND ORDER
HART, District Judge.
In this civil rights case involving a fatal shooting at the time of arrest, plaintiff sought to call an expert witness on the topics of police procedure and the use of force as part of her case-in-chief. Defendant objected on the grounds that plaintiff’s answers to the expert witness interrogatories were both inadequate and untimely. Plaintiff was precluded from calling the expert at trial.
I. Background
Plaintiff alleged that defendant, a sergeant with the Illinois State Police, used excessive force when he shot and killed her son, John…
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