United States Seventh Circuit

The district court's exclusion of expert evidence on social science studies, in support of a Ghanaian defendant's claims that a confession given to FBI agents after arrest was false, did not violate Fed. R. Evid. 702.

Appellate Information

• Argued 01/29/2003
• Decided 06/11/2003
• Published 06/11/2003

Judges

• KANNE, Circuit Judge., Before COFFEY, EASTERBROOK, and KANNE, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Seventh Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• Madeleine S. Murphy (argued), Office of the U.S. Attorney, Chicago, IL, for plaintiff-appellee., Terence F. MacCarthy, Imani Chiphe (argued), Office of the Federal Defender Program, Chicago, IL, for defendant-appellant.