California Supreme Court
Sep. 9, 2011
Justices consider bounds of expert testimony in gang case
In a lively oral argument Wednesday before an audience of UC Hastings College of the Law students, the state Supreme Court seemed ready to give prosecutors wide latitude in eliciting testimony from criminal gang experts.
Daily Journal Staff Writer
In a lively oral argument Wednesday before an audience of UC Hastings College of the Law students, the state Supreme Court seemed ready to give prosecutors wide latitude in eliciting testimony from criminal gang experts.
The case before the justices stemmed from a San Diego County prosecutor's use of a gang expert to explain why four men would invite a friend to join them on a street corner and the...
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