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List six topics about which lay witnesses are most often permitted to testify?
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Lay witnesses generally testify to factual matters, as opposed to experts who testify as to opinion matters in technical fields such as medicine. Some of the items below may classed as general observed facts, but they are stated as "topics" to show various types of factual testimony. General types of topics can include, but are not necessarily limited to:
- Observed facts such when a witness actually sees something happen.
- Statements made by other persons which have actually been heard by the witness and where such statements are classified as either non-hearsay statements or exceptions to the hearsay rules.
- Alibi testimony
- Character reference testimony
- Testimony as to the witness's own pain and suffering, emotional reaction to an event or other such internal fact.
- Authentication of documents, business records or records kept in the ordinary conduct of a particular undertaking with which the witness is personally familiar.
- Standards and practices of certain types of businesses/activities with which the witness is personally familiar.
- Opinion testimony as to matters that have been determined to be within the realm of knowledge and understanding of a lay person.
- Identification of handwriting and signature of a specific individual, provided the witness has sufficient personal familiarity with that person's handwriting and signature. This does not include testimony commonly referred to as handwriting analysis as that testimony constitutes expert opinion of handwriting of a person with which the witness is not personally familiar.
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