Expert Testimony

United States of America v. Keith Rodney Moore

Submitted by Jane Clayton on Wed, 11/27/2024 - 19:54

This brief urges the Fourth Circuit to affirm the lower court's decision properly applying circuit precedent to the plaintiff's selective enforcement defense. The selective enforcement defense was appropriately supported by statistics revealing significant racial disparities in the Richmond Police Department’s (“RPD”) enforcement of traffic stops against Black drivers compared to their white counterparts. The evidence supplied by the plaintiff sufficiently demonstrated both discriminatory effect and discriminatory purpose, meeting the threshold for a selective enforcement claim.

Reitz v. Woods

Submitted by Re'Neisha Stevenson on Mon, 11/13/2023 - 23:17

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

Mayfield v. Butler Snow, LLP

Submitted by Re'Neisha Stevenson on Wed, 08/16/2023 - 11:11

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

Gilliam v. Allen

Submitted by Re'Neisha Stevenson on Thu, 06/15/2023 - 10:26

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

Masters v. City of Independence, Mo.

Submitted by Re'Neisha Stevenson on Wed, 10/26/2022 - 02:56

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.

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