Carlos Barragan Leon v. United States
Did the district court's failure to make the required reliability finding pursuant to Federal Rule of Evidence 702 of the methodology and principles underlying the expert translator's testimony of the translation of the text messages from Spanish into English when the words appeared "out of order and scrambled" after the texts were downloaded from WhatsApp violate Daubert v. Merrill, 509 U.S. 579 (1993) and Kumho Tire v. Carmichael, 526 U.S. 127 (1999) when the expert translator "rearranged" the scrambled words in a manner she "thought" Mr. Leon was "thinking", then translated her words into English and testified to the meaning of the words she rearranged?
Did the district court's failure to make the required reliability finding pursuant to Federal Rule of Evidence 702 of the methodology and principles underlying the expert translator's testimony of the translation of text messages from Spanish into English when the words appeared 'out of order and scrambled' violate Daubert and Kumho Tire standards of expert testimony?