• in the Fishman case Dick Anthony played a key role in convincing the court that Margaret Singer’s brainwashing theory lacked scientific support, leading to her rejection as an expert witness?
• due to backlash from the trial of John Hinckley, Jr., under US law an expert witness can no longer testify on legal issues such as the insanity defense?
• psychologist Steve Eichel was an expert witness in the 2003 criminal trial of Lee Boyd Malvo?
• neurologist Michael Ashby, an expert witness for the prosecution in the 1957 trial of suspected serial killer John Bodkin Adams, was widely blamed for its failure because his evidence was too indecisive?

Facts on topics related to Expert witness

Evidence (law)

• Westmoreland v. CBS demonstrated that a public figure cannot win a libel suit in the United States unless reckless and defamatory statements are evidence of actual malice?
• in 1656, Judith Catchpole was tried before colonial Maryland's first all-female jury because a woman's expertise was needed to evaluate the evidence?

Civil procedure

• a vexatious litigant may be barred from using the courts in common law countries because they have previously undertaken frivolous litigation claims or procedures?

Sharia

• in Islamic law, a mukataba is a contract of manumission according to which the slave buys his freedom from his master?

Lawyer

• British actress Glynis Johns appeared in the short-lived 1963 CBS sitcom called Glynis, in which she played a mystery writer, with Keith Andes as her lawyer-husband?
• lawyer James A. MacAlister was the first president of Drexel University?
• Swiss lawyer Georges Brunschvig was first to prove The Protocols of the Elders of Zion to be false in court?
• British lawyer and activist of the Indian independence movement Eardley Norton was instrumental in establishing an UK-chapter of the Indian National Congress?
• Opoku Ware II, King of the Ashanti people from 1970 to 1999, worked as a building inspector, a surveyor, a lawyer, and an ambassador prior to his enthronement?
• Tom Bauer is a lawyer and politician from Saint Louis, Missouri who was recalled after supporting several redevelopment proposals using eminent domain?
• during the 1960s, Texas lawyer John Ben Shepperd worked to obtain the land for the creation of Lyndon B. Johnson State Park and Historic Site along the Pedernales River?
• like the characters in his television series The Practice and Boston Legal, David E. Kelley worked as a lawyer in a Boston law firm?
• of the sixty delegates to the Oregon Constitutional Convention, (Oregon Territory Seal pictured) thirty-four were farmers, while eighteen were lawyers, including three justices of the Oregon Supreme Court?
• the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in 1963 that a criminal defendant has a constitutional right to "effective" legal counsel, but "effective" was not defined until Wiggins v. Smith in 2003?

Common law

• Mohegan Indians v. Connecticut was the first indigenous land rights litigation in history in a common law jurisdiction?
• a vexatious litigant may be barred from using the courts in common law countries because they have previously undertaken frivolous litigation claims or procedures?
• in the landmark decision United States v. Oppenheimer, the U.S. Supreme Court held that the common law principle of res judicata applies to criminal cases?
• the Sanhedrin, which is part of the Mishnah, a major Jewish religious text, focuses on criminal law, and that commentaries on the Sanhedrin by rabbis, as recorded in the Talmud, are noteworthy as precursors to the development of common law principles?

Criminal law

• during his tenure as West Germany's Federal Ministry of Justice, Fritz Neumayer worked primarily on reforming criminal law?
• the High Court of Singapore (Supreme Court Building pictured) is the sole court in Singapore exercising original criminal jurisdiction that may impose the death penalty?
• the Sanhedrin, which is part of the Mishnah, a major Jewish religious text, focuses on criminal law, and that commentaries on the Sanhedrin by rabbis, as recorded in the Talmud, are noteworthy as precursors to the development of common law principles?

Law

• legal experts consider the YouTube divorce video posted by British playwright Tricia Walsh-Smith be the first of its kind?
• Bredo Henrik von Munthe af Morgenstierne, professor of law and rector of the University of Oslo, was a nephew of Norwegian Prime Minister Frederik Stang?
• Leonard McEwan, in an unusual move, stepped down from the Wyoming Supreme Court in 1974 to become instead a district court judge in Sheridan, where he had earlier practiced law?
• collecting Toyon branches for Christmas became so popular in Los Angeles, California in the 1920s, that the state passed a law forbidding collecting?
• the Satversme is intended to hold together all other laws in Latvia?