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U.S. v. Hall, No. 95-2994 (7th Cir.) (93 F.3d 1337) (August 27, 1996) (Judge Diane P. Wood)

In this rather strange ruling, the Seventh Circuit vacated a conviction on the grounds that the district court had applied the incorrect standard in excluding and limiting proffered expert testimony concerning the defendant’s "susceptibility" to coercion and to giving false confessions. The defendant was convicted of kidnaping a child and ...

 

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