U.S. v. KRISTIANSEN

No. 89-2283.

901 F.2d 1463 (1990)

UNITED STATES of America, Appellee, v. Kolby KRISTIANSEN, Appellant.

United States Court of Appeals, Eighth Circuit.

Decided April 25, 1990.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

R. Thomas Day, St. Louis, Mo., for appellant.

Richard Poehling, St. Louis, Mo., for appellee.

Before McMILLIAN, Circuit Judge, HEANEY, Senior Circuit Judge, and FAGG, Circuit Judge.


HEANEY, Senior Circuit Judge.

Kolby Kristiansen appeals from his conviction for escape from a halfway house facility. He raises two challenges to the conduct of the trial.1 First, the district court improperly excluded defense questions to an expert under Rule 704(b) while allowing prosecution questions that should have been excluded under the same rule. Second, the prosecution's closing argument was improper. We affirm.

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