Maryland's top court will weigh if the science linking fatal bullets to specific guns cases survives the court’s new standard for judging scientific testimony.
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Read More »June 7, 2022 Comments Off on Md. high court to weigh ballistics testimony under stricter standard for scientific testimony
Maryland's top court will weigh if the science linking fatal bullets to specific guns cases survives the court’s new standard for judging scientific testimony.
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Read More »June 9, 2021 Comments Off on Maryland high court lifts attorneys’ diligence burden in fraudulent ballistics expert appeals
Attorneys no longer need to defend their failure to have unmasked Maryland’s former longtime ballistics expert as a fraud in their effort to get their convicted clients a new trial, the state’s top court has ruled.
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Read More »October 30, 2020 Comments Off on Md. high court orders firearm evidence review under Daubert
The Maryland Court of Appeals has told a trial court to review whether the long-accepted courtroom science linking fatal bullets to specific guns in homicide cases withstands the high court’s recently adopted standard that permits emerging and contrary scientific theories ...
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Read More »June 8, 2018 Comments Off on Police chiefs plot new strategies against gun violence and mass shootings
Even as it is beset by gun violence, Chicago likes to claim it has some of the strictest gun laws in the country.
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