The Opinion Question: Myth or Magic?
Even the greenest of prosecutors knows to ask it. And all officers, from rookie to veteran, know how to answer. Rare is the impaired driving case without it. What’s the […]
January 28, 2010
Visual Identification of Drugs Takes Another Hit
Update: On February 16, the North Carolina Court of Appeals issued an opinion in State v. Davis, in which law enforcement officers were allowed to offer lay testimony without objection […]
May 28, 2009
I See Cocaine
Can a lay witness testify that she could tell just by looking at a substance that it was, in fact, a controlled substance? (Let’s assume the witness has extensive dealings […]
Subscribe
Categories
Blog Authors
- Maggie Bailey
- Brittany Bromell
- Emily Coward
- Alexander Cowell
- Melanie Crenshaw
- Michael Crowell
- Shea Denning
- Sara DePasquale
- Phil Dixon
- James Drennan
- Belal Elrahal
- Whitney Fairbanks
- Bob Farb
- Rebecca Fisher-Gabbard
- Jacquelyn Greene
- Timothy Heinle
- Timothy Heinle
- Jonathan Holbrook
- Joseph L. Hyde
- Kirsten Leloudis
- Caitlin Little
- Ian Mance
- Jamie Markham
- Chris McLaughlin
- Kristi Nickodem
- Alex Phipps
- M. Jeanette Pitts
- LaToya Powell
- Ethan Rex
- John Rubin
- Jessica Smith
- Meredith Smith
- Daniel Spiegel
- Tom Thornburg
- Hannah Turner
- Christopher Tyner
- Jeffrey Welty