Court of Special Appeals hears challenge of ballistics evidence 

Posted: 3:32 pm Mon, February 8, 2010
By Danny Jacobs

ANNAPOLIS – The Court of Special Appeals on Monday considered a challenge to the admissibility of ballistics evidence by a Columbia teenager convicted of murder, whose lawyer argued that a widely used analysis lacks scientific rigor. “The methodology used by the state’s examiners is unvalidated and without scientific backing,” said Brian A. Zemil, a partner at ...