PEOPLE v. ALLEN

No. 1-06-1943.

875 N.E.2d 1221 (2007)

The PEOPLE of the State of Illinois, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Walter ALLEN, Defendant-Appellant.

Appellate Court of Illinois, First District, First Division.

September 28, 2007.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Sean C. Herring and Shannon P. Bartlett, and John J. Hamill, Jenner & Block LLP, of Chicago, for Appellant.

Richard A. Devine, State's Attorney of Cook County, of Chicago (James E. Fitzgerald, Peter Fischer, and Janet C. Mahoney, of Counsel), for Appellee.


Justice WOLFSON delivered the opinion of the court:

Social scientists have been conducting research into the ability of one human being to identify another. Whether such an expert should be allowed to testify in a criminal case is a matter of broad discretion for the trial court. In light of the specific circumstances of this case, we hold reversible error was committed when the trial court refused to allow an expert to...

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