How to Use expert witness in a Sentence

expert witness

noun
  • When the case went to trial, Mary took the stand as an expert witness.
    — Sarah Wyman, Scientific American, 27 June 2024
  • Her defense team hired Resnick to serve as their expert witness in the case.
    — Chelsea Bailey, CNN Money, 22 Apr. 2026
  • Has served as an expert witness in civil and voting rights cases.
    — Ramon Padilla, USA TODAY, 29 Sep. 2024
  • Justin Leigh organized the suit and served as an expert witness.
    — oregonlive, 10 May 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
  • 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
  • But access to an expert witness is exceedingly hard to come by.
    — Zoe Adams and Asher Levinthal, STAT, 21 June 2024
  • 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
  • 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
  • An expert witness said the injuries matched her testimony in court.
    — Joseph Wilkinson, New York Daily News, 25 June 2025
  • An expert witness for the prosecution could not confirm that Meili had been raped by more than one man.
    — Tracy Grant, Encyclopedia Britannica, 10 Apr. 2026
  • 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
  • Cooper served for years as an expert witness in workers’-comp cases, brought in to assess whether the claimant really had been struck.
    — Jacob Stern, The Atlantic, 16 Mar. 2026
  • Wells has been an expert witness in dog behavior for past criminal and civil cases.
    — Kendrick Calfee, Kansas City Star, 11 Aug. 2025
  • When an expert witness takes the stand, their testimony must be based on clear, reproducible methods.
    — Lars Daniel, Forbes, 2 Nov. 2024
  • Hu was an expert witness for the plaintiffs in the federal fluoride trial.
    — Deidre McPhillips, CNN, 3 Oct. 2024
  • 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
  • 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
  • In a hearing, Guardant claimed the expert witness received the paper six weeks before the conference.
    — Ethan Baron, Mercury News, 27 May 2026
  • 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
  • One reported serving as an expert witness in several kratom lawsuits.
    — Tara Molina, CBS News, 1 June 2026
  • Koren spoke at conferences all over the world, and testified as an expert witness in Toronto courtrooms.
    — Ben Taub, New Yorker, 26 Jan. 2026
  • Professor Rubin, an expert witness in the case, said its impact on state politics could be profound.
    — Susan Davis, NPR, 4 June 2024
  • 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
  • The court will have to decide if the evidence is self-authenticating or if an expert witness will be needed to explain its nature.
    — Josh Hammer, MSNBC Newsweek, 1 Apr. 2025
  • After the jury heard from an expert witness on mental health and prisoners, the second witness to take the stand was Horner's mother.
    — Amelia Mugavero, CBS News, 22 Apr. 2026
  • The state’s expert witness list filing is 400 pages, according to a recent defense filing.
    — Kevin Fixler, Idaho Statesman, 11 Jan. 2025
  • The hearing had been scheduled for July, but late changes to the report of the defense’s forensic expert witness prompted a delay.
    — Clifford Ward, Chicago Tribune, 22 Aug. 2025

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