How to Use expert witness in a Sentence

expert witness

noun
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  • The evidence — per the Inquirer — centers around an expert witness who prepared a report for prosecutors.
    — Danny Freeman, CNN, 8 Aug. 2024
  • Richard asked me to come to New Orleans and be an expert witness for the defense.
    — Andrew Weil, Harper's Magazine, 13 Dec. 2023
  • Imai is an expert witness for the plaintiffs in the pending Supreme Court case.
    — Mike Orcutt, Quanta Magazine, 1 June 2023
  • If the prosecution puts an expert witness on the stand, the defense should do the same.
    — Zoe Adams and Asher Levinthal, STAT, 21 June 2024
  • At the height of her career, Mary Willard was serving as an expert witness in court about once a month.
    — Sarah Wyman, Scientific American, 27 June 2024
  • Justin Leigh organized the suit and served as an expert witness.
    — oregonlive, 10 May 2023
  • The judge ordered the attorneys to exchange the names of their expert witness 60 days before the trial.
    — Tracy Neal, Arkansas Online, 19 June 2023
  • The report was prepared by Lawrence Hunter who says he was hired as an expert witness Glenda Smith, who is a lawyer.
    — The Enquirer, 27 Feb. 2024
  • Deena McMahon was brought on as an expert witness for the foster parent.
    — Rayna Reid Rayford, Essence, 13 Oct. 2023
  • While doing all of this, Leah becomes an expert witness to her boyfriend’s condition.
    — Meredith Maran, Washington Post, 7 Apr. 2023
  • Both sides plan to bring at least one medical professional to weigh in as an expert witness.
    — Ilana Arougheti, Kansas City Star, 6 June 2024
  • Because of her decades of research on trauma and abuse victims, Burgess has served as an expert witness in high-profile trials.
    — Olivia B. Waxman, TIME, 11 July 2024
  • But access to an expert witness is exceedingly hard to come by.
    — Zoe Adams and Asher Levinthal, STAT, 21 June 2024
  • The second is an expert witness who is expected to discuss FTX’s database.
    — James Fanelli, WSJ, 26 Oct. 2023
  • Richard Kahlenberg, an expert witness for Students for Fair Admissions, shares that view.
    — Char Adams, NBC News, 31 May 2023
  • A week later, on Feb. 23, the court ruled that the demolition should proceed, concluding from an expert witness report that the earthquake test had been valid.
    — Hannah Lucinda Smith, Los Angeles Times, 27 Apr. 2023
  • He was celebrated in his time, testifying before Congress and as an expert witness in court, and sought out by the FBI to help with cases.
    — Andrew Ba Tran, Washington Post, 15 Aug. 2023
  • At the end of Scopes trial, in one of the more dramatic scenes in courtroom history, Darrow maneuvered Bryan himself onto the stand as an expert witness on the Bible.
    — Lisa Grunwald, TIME, 12 Apr. 2024
  • Trump and his allies also picked up on a report that Halderman, the plaintiff’s expert witness, generated for the case.
    — Amy Gardner, Washington Post, 7 Jan. 2024
  • Fowler testified as an expert witness for Chauvin at his murder trial in 2021.
    — Ovetta Wiggins, Washington Post, 8 Nov. 2023
  • Professor Rubin, an expert witness in the case, said its impact on state politics could be profound.
    — Susan Davis, NPR, 4 June 2024
  • On Wednesday, attorney Joe Tacopina said Trump would not testify and effectively pulled their expert witness in the case.
    — Rachel Schilke, Washington Examiner, 5 May 2023
  • The government, which was given one week to present its defense, rested after just one day and did not call its main expert witness, surprising many legal experts.
    — Mike Baker, New York Times, 14 Aug. 2023
  • The defense team also played a video of the shooter experiencing what an expert witness described as a psychotic episode while in custody.
    — Tamia Fowlkes, Washington Post, 29 Sep. 2023
  • In court Wednesday, the Trump legal team continued with its direct line of questioning of expert witness Jason Flemmons.
    — Graham Kates, CBS News, 15 Nov. 2023
  • The same went for allowing an expert witness to tell jurors that Negroponte’s version of events was unreliable.
    — Dan Morse, Washington Post, 23 Jan. 2024
  • Damages expert witness for Carroll helped two election workers get $148 verdict against Rudy Giuliani.
    — Bart Jansen, USA TODAY, 17 Jan. 2024
  • The defense on Tuesday also called its first expert witness, Mike Sutton, a forensics engineer, who introduced a theory that Murdaugh was too tall to be the shooter.
    — Uwa Ede-Osifo, NBC News, 22 Feb. 2023
  • Judge Glock, an expert witness and director of research at the Manhattan Institute, a conservative think tank.
    — Juliette Rihl, The Arizona Republic, 7 July 2023
  • The amount of money at stake for both sides pales in comparison to the typical legal costs of a multiyear lawsuit, private security detail and expert witness-heavy trial.
    — CBS News, 30 Mar. 2023

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