The court providently exercised its discretion in permitting a witness with extensive experience regarding the presence of weapons in correctional facilities to provide background testimony about how weapons are smuggled into, or created or hidden in, such places. One of the contested issues at trial was whether the victim's injury had been inflicted by means of a dangerous instrument, and the testimony at issue was helpful to the jury in explaining how defendant was able...
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