Federal Judge Cuts Expert’s Testimony In Suit Over Traffic Stop

Mealey's (April 19, 2018, 11:33 AM EDT) -- TRENTON, N.J. — A New Jersey federal judge on April 16 nixed seven out of eight opinions offered by an expert for a man who says he was injured by a police officer’s excessive force during a routine traffic stop; the judge then further barred the expert from making several assertions to support his eighth and final opinion (Barsoum S. Israel v. Lieutenant Dean R. Smith, et al., No. 13-cv-0097, D. N.J., 2018 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 64043)....