{"id":4627,"date":"2017-08-10T23:52:11","date_gmt":"2017-08-10T23:52:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/reunitethestates.org\/?page_id=4627"},"modified":"2017-08-10T23:52:11","modified_gmt":"2017-08-10T23:52:11","slug":"rule-704-opinion-on-an-ultimate-issue","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/reunitethestates.org\/?page_id=4627","title":{"rendered":"Rule 704 \u2013 Opinion on an Ultimate Issue"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(a) <strong>In General \u2014 Not Automatically Objectionable<\/strong>. An opinion is not objectionable just because it embraces an ultimate issue.<\/p>\n<p>(b) <strong>Exception<\/strong>. In a criminal case, an expert witness must not state an opinion about whether the defendant did or did not have a mental state or condition that constitutes an element of the crime charged or of a defense. Those matters are for the trier of fact alone.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(a) In General \u2014 Not Automatically Objectionable. An opinion is not objectionable just because it embraces an ultimate issue. (b) Exception. In a criminal case, an expert witness must not state an opinion about whether the defendant did or did not have a mental state or condition that constitutes an element of the crime charged &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/reunitethestates.org\/?page_id=4627\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Rule 704 \u2013 Opinion on an Ultimate Issue<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":4485,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-4627","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/reunitethestates.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4627","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/reunitethestates.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/reunitethestates.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reunitethestates.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reunitethestates.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4627"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/reunitethestates.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4627\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4628,"href":"https:\/\/reunitethestates.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4627\/revisions\/4628"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reunitethestates.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4485"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/reunitethestates.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4627"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}