expert witness

noun

: a witness in a court of law who is an expert on a particular subject

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Those arguments often are combined with battles over whether one side’s expert witness is truly expert enough to go in front of a jury. Joe Mahr, Chicago Tribune, 29 Mar. 2026 Stanford psychiatrist Anna Lembke, author of Dopamine Nation and an expert witness called by the plaintiffs in the Meta and YouTube trial, argues that compulsive tech use taps into the brain’s reward circuitry in ways that mirror drug addiction. Kristin Stoller, Fortune, 26 Mar. 2026 The actor’s posture on his condition was contested by Michael Genovese, a psychiatrist and expert witness for MRC who said that Spacey contemplated suicide. Winston Cho, HollywoodReporter, 25 Mar. 2026 Among advocates for domestic-violence victims, much of their anger was directed at the district attorney’s office, which had spent more than $16,000 on expert witness testimony in Wilkens’ case alone. Pamela Colloff, ProPublica, 24 Mar. 2026 See All Example Sentences for expert witness

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