Blackburn v. Murphy

How courts have described this case

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• noting that lay opinion testimony may be admitted to describe “‘observed facts in the only way in which they can be clearly described’” and may extend to such matters as whether a person was drunk, the identification of the nature or source of a sound, distance, or speed
• “distances and speed are regularly estimated by lay witnesses”
• “[A]n error does not of itself necessarily require reversal.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).