investors to testify as to the value of their investment); Neff v. Kehoe, 708 F.2d 639, 643-44 (11th Cir.1983) (reversing, in an action alleging misrepresentations in sale of a coin collection, the exclusion of testimony of the plaintif&'buyer, • who was determined competent to give lay opinion testimony as to the value of the coins, even though such testimony was self-serving and unsupported by other evidence); Garis v. Massey, 270 Ark. 646, 606 S.W.2d 109, 112 (App.1980) (allowing owner of similar pr etti Corp. of America, 762 F.2d 843, 845-46 (10th Cir.1985) (permitting admission of testimony as to lost future profits from company’s president/treasurer with personal knowledge of company’s operations, sales, and profits); State v. Johnson, 221 Mont. 503, 719 P.2d 1248, 1256-57 (1986) (<HOLDING>); Schmidt v. J.C. Robinson Seed Co., 220 Neb.
holding police officer had probable cause to believe defendant was operating a motor vehicle under the influence of alcohol holding that it was error to allow a police officer who was admitted as a lay witness after a prosecution motion to admit him as an expert was denied for lack of timeliness to give testimony as to a matter about which he had no personal knowledge holding that in order to state a claim for ineffective assistance of counsel based on the failure to call a witness to testify the claimant must allege 1 the identity of the potential witness 2 that the witness was available to testify at trial 3 the substance of the witnesss testimony and 4 an explanation of how the omission of the testimony prejudiced the case holding no abuse of discretion where judge had personal relationship with government witnesses but had not had contact with them for over ten years holding that in a prosecution for driving under the influence of alcohol a police officer was properly allowed to testify as a lay witness on the basis of his own experience as to what generally happens to a car when its power steering fails where he had worked on vehicles of all kinds for over ten years and had experienced power steering failure several times