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Mohan. In R v. Mohan, we explore a criminal case in Canada where Mohan, a pediatrician, was charged with four counts of sexual assault on four of his female patients, who were between the ages of 13 to 16.
Jun 1, 2014 · Frye, a veteran of The Great War, was indicted for premeditated murder, tried in 1922, convicted of second-degree murder, and sentenced to life in prison. After spending nearly 18 years behind bars, he was paroled in 1939 and married the same year.
Feb 26, 2024 · Kelly-Frye rule was inapplicable to expert medical opinion on genital trauma in rape. Prior to trial the defendant moved in limine to prohibit the People from introducing expert opinion testimony on genital trauma in rape.
Feb 7, 2019 · In State of California v. Carrington, 2018 WL 671903 (California Court of Appeal, Second District), the appellant was charged with first degree murder. He was convicted at trial and appealed his conviction arguing, inter alia, that the trial judge erred in rejecting defense expert facial recognition evidence that would exonerate him.
Jun 29, 2016 · In a criminal case in which James Alphonzo Frye was convicted of second-degree murder, the lower court excluded Frye’s expert from testifying, finding that the expert’s opinion was based on the results of a polygraph test—a method that had not been generally accepted by the relevant scientific community.
Frye courts have followed Joiner's lead and scrutinized experts' reasoning process in extrapolating or drawing inferences from the underlying scientific evidence to reach their conclusions.
These aspects of the testimony in combination were intended to show the jury that the defendant was a person who sleptwalked, individuals could commit murder in their sleep, thus the defendant was asleep when the victim was killed.
