An Expert for All Seasons? A Study in Expert Overreach
In January 2020, James Wells was sentenced to life imprisonment for the April 2012 murders of two U.S. Coast Guard employees, who were co-workers of Wells on Kodiak Island, Alaska. He was originally convicted in 2014 and his convictions were reversed by the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals in December 2017. Following a...
Use of Force Expert Prohibited from Expressing Opinion on Video Evidence
Jackson v. Catanzariti, 2019 WL 2098991 (U. S. District Court, S.D. Georgia), is a case wherein former prison inmates sued correctional officers for violating their constitutional right to be free from excessive use of force while they were incarcerated. The plaintiffs contended that video evidence supported their complaints of excessive use of force....