Supreme Court Takes Case of Convicted Meth Smuggler Challenging Expert Testimony

The Supreme Court has accepted the appeal of an accused drug trafficker stopped at the border who claims she didn’t know 28 kilograms of methamphetamine were hidden in the door panels of the car she was driving. The case is Diaz v. United States (court file 23-14). The Supreme Court granted the petition for certiorari, or review, without comment in an unsigned order on Nov. 13. No justices dissented. At least four of the nine justices must vote for the petition for it to move forward to the oral argument stage. The case goes back to Aug. 17, 2020, when Delilah Guadalupe Diaz was returning to her home in California after a trip to Mexico....