State v. Blake

¶1 — As authorized by the Rules of Evidence, a lay witness may testify as to observations gleaned from his or her senses as well as to inferences arising from those perceptions. A witness need not have had actual visual perception of an event to testify that it occurred. Here, Jerome Blake contends that the jury heard impermissible opinion testimony from two witnesses — who testified that Blake shot Marquise Brown — because these two witnesses did not physically see the shot as it was being fired from the gun. Because this challenged testimony did not express impermissible opinions on guilt…