Court of Appeals for the Armed Forces September 29, 1995, No. 94-0768; CMR No. 922146 (United States v. Nimmer)

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Opinion of the Court

WISS, Judge:

1. This is an appeal from a special court-martial conviction by officer members for wrongful use of cocaine.1 We agreed to consider whether the military judge abused his discretion when he excluded expert testimony regarding a negative hair analysis for presence of a cocaine metabolite, which was offered by the defense as tending to rebut the