The Opinion Question: Myth or Magic?
Shea Denning
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
Alyson Grine
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 […]
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I See Cocaine
Alyson Grine
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 […]
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