People v. King

This case presents question as to whether trial court properly admitted “crime-scene-analysis” testimony from former FBI profiler in defendant’s first-degree murder trial, where said profiler gave opinion as to cause of victim’s death. Appellate Court, in reversing defendant’s conviction, found that profiler was not qualified by knowledge, skill, experience, training or education to give opinion as to cause of victim’s death. Ct. further found that profiler improperly gave opinion on subjects that jurors could have decided for themselves, and that profiler should not have testified about characteristics of persons who stage crime scenes, where said testimony could only have identified defendant as culprit.