How have courts treated testimony by an expert who has witnessed crime scene evidence that he believes multiple crimes were committed at the same time?
California, United States of America
The following excerpt is from People v. Wilson, F074220 (Cal. App. 2018):
hundreds of crime scenes, that he believed multiple crimes were committed by the same person. Such testimony does not direct a verdict, especially where the jurors were instructed that they were the exclusive judges of credibility and were not bound by an expert's opinion. (People v. Prince (2007) 40 Cal.4th 1179, 1226-1227.)
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