Expert For Officer, City In Police Shooting Case Ousted For Lack Of Reliability

Mealey's (August 19, 2019, 11:45 AM EDT) -- TACOMA, Wash. — A Washington federal judge on Aug. 16 excluded the testimony of a biomechanics expert for Olympia, Wash., and one of the city’s police officers in a civil rights case brought against them by two black brothers the officer shot during an attempted arrest, saying the expert’s use of 3-D images based only on the officer’s recollection is unreliable (Andre Thompson, et al. v. Olympia, et al., No. 3:18-cv-05267, W.D. Wash., 2019 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 139202)....