California, United States of America
The following excerpt is from People v. Travis S. (In re Travis S.), B293853 (Cal. App. 2019):
2. The People did not present any expert testimony that short people are more likely to commit crimes in groups than tall people. Nor did they present any evidence that robbers are more likely to work in pairs or groups than they are to work alone. (See People v. Steele (2002) 27 Cal.4th 1230, 1266 ["A fine line exists between using one's background in analyzing the evidence, which is appropriate, even inevitable, and injecting 'an opinion explicitly based on specialized information obtained from outside sources,' which we have described as [juror] misconduct. [Citation.]"].)
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