"The importance of expert testimony in an obscenity case is also demonstrated by the fact that it can serve as a substitute for voluminous comparative evidence.”
How later courts described this case
- "The importance of expert testimony in an obscenity case is also demonstrated by the fact that it can serve as a substitute for voluminous comparative evidence.”
- no offer of proof necessary when judge erroneously excludes expert testimony on basis of proposed witness’s qualifications
Written by the judges who cited it.
The opinion
Abrams, J.
(concurring). I adhere to the views expressed in my dissent in Commonwealth v. Trainor, 374 Mass. 796, 807-811 (1978). Accepting the fact that my views did not prevail, I concur in this opinion.