United States Eighth Circuit

When a law enforcement officer is not qualified as an expert by the court, her testimony is admissible as lay opinion only when she is a participant in the conversations, has personal knowledge of the facts being related or observed the conversations as they occurred.

Appellate Information

• Decided 05/18/2001
• Published 05/18/2001

Judges

• WOLLMAN, Chief Judge., Before WOLLMAN, Chief Judge, McMILLIAN, and RICHARD S. ARNOLD, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Eighth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• William C. Odle, Kansas City, MO, argued, for appellant Cornelius E. Peoples., Susan McCarthy, Kansas City, MO, argued, for appellant Xavier Lightfoot.


• For Appellees:
  
• Mark A. Miller, Kansas City, MO, argued (Matt J. Whitworth, on the brief), for appellee.