United States Ninth Circuit

District court did not err in refusing to let an expert opine as to whether shootings were accidental, and error in excluding the expert from the courtroom, when victims testified regarding the details of various struggles over the gun, was harmless.

Appellate Information

• Argued 05/13/2002
• Decided 11/21/2002
• Published 11/21/2002

Judges

• BERZON, Circuit Judge., Before: SNEED, HUG and BERZON, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Ninth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• Karen M. Wilkinson, Assistant Federal Public Defender, District of Arizona, Phoenix, AZ, for the defendant-appellant., Joseph C. Welty, Assistant United States Attorney, District of Arizona, Phoenix, AZ, for the plaintiff-appellee.