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In law, a person who was present at some event (such as an accident, a crime, or the signing of a document) or has relevant special knowledge (such as a medical expert) and can be called on to give evidence in a court of law.



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The difference between lay witness and expert witness is shown in this exchange in a trial involving former Louisiana governor Edwin Edwards.
Whitehead, was dismissed by the CUF board of directors in 1980; and by 1982, the CUF magazine Lay Witness had dropped from its masthead the names of all nine of the regional directors who had been serving at the local level in the United States.
Michael Jones and Fidelity magazine, James Sullivan and Lay Witness are the latter-day shapers of a new Catholic conservativism.
 
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