{"id":44319,"date":"2020-06-26T13:36:19","date_gmt":"2020-06-26T18:36:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=44319"},"modified":"2020-06-26T13:36:19","modified_gmt":"2020-06-26T18:36:19","slug":"ca5-expert-opinion-on-reasonableness-in-1983-case-improper","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=44319","title":{"rendered":"CA5: Expert opinion on reasonableness in 1983 case improper"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>\u201cWe first find that the district court did not abuse its discretion in excluding portions of testimony from two of Albert&#8217;s expert witnesses\u2014Richard Lichten, a police-procedure expert, and Dr. Kris Sperry, the former Chief Medical Examiner for the State of Georgia. The district court held that three of Lichten&#8217;s opinions were inadmissible conclusions of law. See United States v. Williams, 343 F.3d 423, 435 (5th Cir. 2003) (\u2018Reasonableness under the Fourth Amendment or Due Process Clause is a legal conclusion.\u2019); McBroom v. Payne, 478 F. App&#8217;x 196, 200 (5th Cir. 2012) (per curiam) (explaining that experts are not \u2018permit[ted] \u2026 to offer legal conclusions, and whether an officer&#8217;s use of his firearm was unreasonable for purposes of the Fourth Amendment is a legal conclusion\u2019 (citation omitted)). We agree.\u201d  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ca5.uscourts.gov\/opinions\/unpub\/19\/19-60803.0.pdf\">Albert v. City of Petal<\/a>, 2020 U.S. App. LEXIS 19673 (5th Cir. June 22, 2020).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cWe first find that the district court did not abuse its discretion in excluding portions of testimony from two of Albert&#8217;s expert witnesses\u2014Richard Lichten, a police-procedure expert, and Dr. Kris Sperry, the former Chief Medical Examiner for the State of &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=44319\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[45,124],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-44319","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-45","category-admissibility-of-evidence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44319","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=44319"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44319\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44320,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44319\/revisions\/44320"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=44319"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=44319"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=44319"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}