Lay opinion testimony is tolerated because, frankly, it is hard to find the line between fact and opinion ("she is tall," "they appeared drunk," "the car was way over the speed limit") and because lay ...

A multi-million dollar damages award for breach of contract case could be undone after a federal appeals court Wednesday found an expert witness was erroneously admitted under the federal lay witness ...

As previously noted in this column, our system of justice relies heavily on the testimony of witnesses to find truth. That testimony comes in two basic flavors — lay witness testimony and expert ...

HOUSTON – Enron Corp. founder Kenneth Lay ignored employees’ concerns about accounting integrity in the weeks before the company collapsed in 2001, a prosecutor sought to show Monday. On the third day ...

Appeals attorneys for the teen serving a life sentence for fatally shooting four students at Oxford High School have filed a motion with an Oakland Circuit judge, asking him to consider input from lay ...

On Nov. 4, the Colorado Supreme Court decided a case having to do with expert testimony at a trial. The case in question, People v. Martinez, involved the first-degree murder conviction of a man named ...

“Oxygen Frog proffered Piebes’ testimony as a lay witness offering views based on perception and experience. However, this testimony was ‘directed to the central legal and technical question at trial… ...

HOUSTON — Lawyers for former Enron Corp. chiefs Kenneth Lay and Jeffrey Skilling began their case Monday with the two men’s former assistant who said she believed a key prosecution witness lied about ...

The highly anticipated testimony from the former top two leaders of scandal-choked Enron Corp. could be the only hurdle between them and vindication or prison. Once Enron founder Kenneth Lay and ...

Lay then acknowledged that he approached Glisan near a bathroom and a witness area during a break in the ex-treasurer's testimony and tried to soothe him. Lay said Wednesday he thought Glisan, who is ...