The Supreme Court ruled against a convicted drug mule from ... The ruling on a 6-3 vote means Delilah Guadalupe Diaz's ... The case focused on a rule of evidence that was amended ...

Justices voted 6 to 3 to reject Delilah Diaz’s claim that her trial was unfair because an expert's testimony strongly suggested she must have known drugs were in her car.

In August 2020, Diaz, a U.S. citizen, was stopped at a border crossing as she was returning from Mexico. When a Border Patrol agent asked her to roll down one of the car's windows, she said it was ...

On June 20, 2024, the U.S. Supreme Court decided Diaz v. United States, No. 23-14, holding an expert’s opinion that “most people” in the defendant’s situation have a particular mental ...

Justice Neil Gorsuch chastised the Supreme Court majority for ruling against a drug trafficking defendant Thursday, arguing the decision gives the government too much prosecutorial power. Delilah G… ...

Delilah Guadalupe Diaz says testimony that she likely knew of the presence of drugs in her vehicle when she was stopped at the border unlawfully undermined her defense. IE 11 is not supported.

United States involves California resident Delilah Diaz, who was sentenced to 84 months in prison after she was discovered with $368,550 worth of methamphetamine carefully stuffed into the ...

Diaz took the case all the way to the Supreme Court citing Rule 704(b), which prohibits expert witnesses from stating an opinion about whether the defendant had the mental state or condition ...

The justices took up Delilah Guadalupe Diaz's appeal that she filed after a lower court rejected her bid to exclude the expert witness's testimony that had cast doubt on her claim that she did not ...

The justices, in a 6-3 ruling, upheld a lower court's decision to allow testimony by an expert witness who called into question Delilah Guadalupe Diaz's contention that she did not know that ...