Opinion · Supreme Court of the United States
Thomas v. Estelle
414 U.S. 871
- Type
- Opinion
- Court
- Supreme Court of the United States
- Jurisdiction
- Federal
- Date
- 1973-10-09
- Topic
- general
How later courts describe this case
- holding that the trial court’s refusal to qualify a witness as an expert was harmless error as two other witnesses had given the same testimony that the rejected expert would have given
- in response to questioning of a witness court stated that "any five year old idiot knows that."
Citator
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C. A. 5th Cir. Certiorari denied.
Mr. Justice Douglas would grant certiorari.