Tag: Canine
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Law Enforcement Expert Not Allowed to Opine on Training And Supervision
Plaintiff Fernando Villanueva-Galvez claimed that Officer Eliseo Anaya’s use of a police canine to locate and arrest him constituted excessive force in violation of the Fourth Amendment. Villanueva-Galvez proposed to present Ernest Burwell‘s testimony regarding police canine practices. Defendants did not challenge Burwell’s qualifications. Nor did the Defendants seek to preclude Burwell from testifying entirely.…
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Law Enforcement Expert Was Allowed to Opine on the Standard Practices Involving Police Canines
In this excessive force case involving a police canine, Plaintiff Herman Evans (“Evans”) filed a motion to exclude the opinion of The City of Lynchburg’s (“City”) expert witness—Jeffrey T. Barrett (“Barrett”). Barrett offered four opinions (although the confines of those opinions are not as clearly defined as they should be). First, he reviewed the training…
