Court Opinion

ID: 9512174
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-06 22:11:53.795708+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T09:05:18.406559
License: Public Domain

JUSTICE NELSON
concurs.
¶16 I concur in the Court’s Opinion. It also seems to me that Grela’s entire argument is premised on a fundamental misconception-that Officer Jagers was testifying as an expert witness. Officer Jagers was doing nothing more than relaying his personal observations of Grela’s condition and status in the emergency room. The fact that Officer Jagers had more understanding of what he observed because of his unique paramedic training and experience did not, necessarily, make him an “expert.” Officer Jagers was simply a better-informed lay witness, and it was in that capacity he testified.