Opinion · Supreme Court of the United States
McDowell v. Civiletti
444 U.S. 969
- Type
- Opinion
- Court
- Supreme Court of the United States
- Jurisdiction
- Federal
- Date
- 1979-11-26
- Topic
- general
How later courts describe this case
- "Expert testimony is admissible if the jury may receive 'appreciable help' from it."
- defendant’s discarding of gun after illegal seizure was “abandonment” because it was not a “spontaneous reaction” to seizure but rather was “an independent act involving a calculated risk”
Citator
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C. A. 3d Cir. Certiorari denied.