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DAVON JONES v. STATE OF MARYLAND

DAVON JONES v. STATE OF MARYLAND

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Criminal procedure — Motion to suppress evidence — Cellphone videos

A jury sitting in the Circuit Court for Howard County convicted Davon Philip Jones of one count of first-degree murder, one count of first-degree assault, and numerous other crimes, all of which arose out of the robbery of two would-be drug dealers. Jones presents two questions for our review, which we have reworded slightly: 1. Did the trial court violate Jones’s constitutional right of confrontation by improperly limiting his cross-examination of the prosecution’s DNA expert? 2. Did the trial court err in admitting into evidence videos recovered from Jones’s cellphone because they were unfairly prejudicial? Because we find …

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