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[W] State v. Barr8/3/2004
ey, 70 Wn. App. 573, 577, 854 P.2d 658 (1993). Not only did Officer Koss indicate that he thought Mr. Barr was guilty, but the officer also testified that he had training in the area of discerning when people are lying. Thus, the officer's impressions of Mr. Barr's guilt were given added credibility by the officer's testimony about his training. While the untainted evidence established that Ms. Johnson lost control of her bowels and ran screaming down the street half naked--while Mr. Barr crawled under a car--this evidence is not so overwhelming that the admission of Officer Koss's testimony was harmless beyond a reasonable doubt.
We conclude the admission of Officer Koss's testimony as to his training on the Reid Investigative Technique and Mr. Barr's guilt constituted a manifest constitutional error that was not harmless. Accordingly, we reverse Mr. Barr's convictions and remand for a new trial.
Kurtz, J.
WE CONCUR:
Schultheis, J.
Brown, J.
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