Petitioner: ‘Entrenched’ Split On Whether Officers Are Giving Expert Opinions

(January 15, 2020, 8:37 AM EST) -- WASHINGTON, D.C. — The U.S. Supreme Court needs to decide whether law enforcement officers offering lay opinions based on their experience should testify instead as experts under Federal Rule of Evidence 702, a man convicted of smuggling cocaine tells the high court in his Jan. 6 petition for a writ of certiorari (Lenin Lugo v. United States, No. 19-855, U.S. Sup., 2020 U.S. S. CT. BRIEFS LEXIS 66)....

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