lay person

The meaning is not something that a lay person can necessarily intuit.

“Even a lay person has the common sense to see exigent circumstances exist to enter these homes,” he said.

"These forms are really difficult to navigate as a lawyer, so for a lay person I can see how it would be quite terrifying," she added.

He ruled that the cited remarks “cannot raise a substantial doubt about my impartiality in the mind of a fully informed, disinterested lay person.”

During the license suspension hearing last month, board member Sullivan Smith said it was “obvious to even a lay person” that Nichols “was in terrible distress and needed help.”