Justice HOENS delivered the opinion of the court.
In this matter, we address the permissible scope of lay opinion testimony in the context of prosecutions involving alleged street-level narcotics transactions. More specifically, we consider whether a police officer, who observed defendant Kelvin McLean engage in behavior that the officer believed was a narcotics transaction, should have been permitted to testify about that belief pursuant to the lay opinion rule....
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