Opinion ID: 78396
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Heading Rank: 6

Heading: Dr. Jablonski

Text: Sarras also asserts that the district court erred in allowing Dr. Jablonksi to speculate that Sarras manipulated his penis in the defense photos and in permitting him to testify as to the location of the mole on Sarras's penis. Sarras argues that Dr. Jablonski's opinion lacked foundation and was drawn from thin air. [34] This claim lacks merit too. First, Dr. Jablonski is an expert in urology and based his opinion on his personal examination and firsthand knowledge of what Sarras's penis actually looked like. Indeed, Sarras's criticism applies with equal force to the testimony of his own witness. That is, Sarras conveniently ignores the fact that before Dr. Jablonski testified, Sarras's expert, Dr. Ferdon, testified that Sarras's penis had not been rotated in the defense photos. Although Sarras emphasizes that Dr. Jablonski was not present when the defense photos were taken, Dr. Ferdon also was not present. Moreover, Dr. Ferdon testified that Dr. Jablonski had rotated Sarras's penis down and to the right in the government photos even though Dr. Ferdon was not present when the government photos were taken. In short, both doctors based their respective opinions about manipulation and rotation on their personal observations of Sarras's penis and the assumption that the defense and government photos were of Sarras's penis. The district court did not abuse its discretion in permitting the government to call its own expert (Dr. Jablonksi) to rebut Sarras's expert (Dr. Ferdon). [35]