The exclusion of expert evidence likely contributed to a not guilty verdict for a driver who was accused of causing a crash with an Amtrak train. Dana Naylor, Jr. was charged with involuntary manslaughter after an Amtrak train crashed into the garbage truck he was driving. The crash occurred near Crozet, Virginia. A co-worker in […]

An expert witness has filed a small claims case against Drake, claiming that the rapper failed to pay his expert witness fees. The Original Lawsuit Drake, the Canadian rapper, singer, songwriter, actor, and producer, was involved in a legal dispute with the production company, Hebrew Hustle.  On April 16, 2014, Hebrew Hustle and the Estate […]

Oklahoma Governor Kevin Stitt has signed into law a piece of legislation that will allow expert witnesses to testify in cases of domestic violence about the effects of violence on their victims and their children and the risks that abusers pose to the victims and children. Oklahoma Senate Bill 958 was a bipartisan bill that […]

As is common in other states, the maximum sentence for a drug crime in South Carolina is tied to the quantity of drugs involved in the crime. For most drugs, quantity is measured by weight. Possessing ten pounds of marijuana is classified as a serious drug trafficking crime in South Carolina, while the penalties for […]

An Ohio lawyer who did expert witness work on behalf of accused child pornographers is now liable for $300,000 to the women whose childhood photos he used to create fake child pornography. The Expert Witness Work Jack Boland of Broadview Heights, Ohio, who was formerly known as Dean Boland, once served as an expert witness […]

Experts testify about a wide range of subjects, but experts in telling jokes rarely take the witness stand. A writer suing Conan O’Brien was hoping to call Elayne Boosler as an expert witness to help him prove that O’Brien stole jokes that the writer had authored. The jury will likely hear testimony from some funny […]

Chantal Thoss was convicted of felonious assault in an Ohio court. The only evidence supporting her conviction came from an expert witness. Because the expert overstepped the boundaries of acceptable expert testimony, the Ohio Court of Appeals reversed the conviction. Trial Evidence A police officer was dispatched to a home in response to a call […]

In Shadrick v. Grana, the Supreme Court of Alabama contributed to a growing body of decisions that interpret state law to limit the admissibility of expert testimony in medical malpractice cases. Many of those laws, including Alabama’s, require a standard-of-care witness to practice in the same field as the allegedly negligent doctor. The laws are […]