Forensic psychiatry & mental health law

Psychiatry & Law Radar

Fri 11 SepCASE

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STATE V. TRICKLE

— STAFF
Expert testimony framed in terms of risk factors that leaves the ultimate question of guilt or innocence to the jury is not impermissible because it embraces an ultimate issue. There was no error in admitting the expert testimony here.

Kan. Sup. Ct. · affirmed

Whether expert psychological-autopsy testimony that a decedent was at low risk for suicide invades the jury's province in a murder trial.

https://www.courtlistener.com/opinion/10971948/state-v-trickle/