{"id":4601,"date":"2017-08-10T19:54:57","date_gmt":"2017-08-10T19:54:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/reunitethestates.org\/?page_id=4601"},"modified":"2017-08-10T19:54:57","modified_gmt":"2017-08-10T19:54:57","slug":"rule-701-opinion-testimony-by-lay-witnesses","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/reunitethestates.org\/?page_id=4601","title":{"rendered":"Rule 701 \u2013 Opinion Testimony by Lay Witnesses"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If a witness is not testifying as an expert, testimony in the form of an opinion is limited to one that is:<\/p>\n<p>(a) rationally based on the witness\u2019s perception;<\/p>\n<p>(b) helpful to clearly understanding the witness\u2019s testimony or to determining a fact in issue; and<\/p>\n<p>(c) not based on scientific, technical, or other specialized knowledge within the scope of <a title=\"Rule 702 \u2013 Testimony by Expert Witnesses\" href=\"https:\/\/www.rulesofevidence.org\/article-vii\/rule-702\/\">Rule 702<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If a witness is not testifying as an expert, testimony in the form of an opinion is limited to one that is: (a) rationally based on the witness\u2019s perception; (b) helpful to clearly understanding the witness\u2019s testimony or to determining a fact in issue; and (c) not based on scientific, technical, or other specialized knowledge &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/reunitethestates.org\/?page_id=4601\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Rule 701 \u2013 Opinion Testimony by Lay Witnesses<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":4485,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-4601","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/reunitethestates.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4601","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/reunitethestates.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/reunitethestates.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reunitethestates.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reunitethestates.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4601"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/reunitethestates.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4601\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4602,"href":"https:\/\/reunitethestates.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4601\/revisions\/4602"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reunitethestates.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4485"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/reunitethestates.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4601"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}