The state Superior Court has ruled in a case of first impression that a single witness may testify as both an expert and a layperson.
In Commonwealth v. Huggins, a three-judge panel unanimously ruled in the result, upholding a jury conviction in the Lancaster County Court of Common Pleas in a case in which a state Office of Attorney General Bureau of Narcotics Investigation and Drug Control agent testified at trial both as an expert in drug jargon and as a lay witness to several intercepted phone conversations.
