Expert Testimony

Former prosecutor’s
opinions re: probable cause and retaliatory prosecution inadmissible as constituting
conclusions of law.

Expert testimony on the absence of probable cause was a legal opinion and thus inadmissible.

In suit for false arrest, deprivation of due process, and malicious prosecution, by exonerees, it was not error to admit in evidence Governor’s pardons based on innocence and to prohibit defendants from impeaching the pardons, where court made clear pardons were not red judicata and did not prohibit defendants from challenging fact of innocence; error to allow former district attorney, based on his knowledge of routine interrogation practices, that he did not find the defendants’ descriptions of interrogations of plaintiffs as calm and uncoercive, testimony constituted objection

Trial court properly allowed vocational rehabilitationist to rely on medical records, reports, and testimony about plaintiff’s medical condition to opine of effect his medical condition might have on his vocational outlook.