Judges may bar experts from testifying when their methodology is flawed but may not exclude testimony because the judges disagreed with the data, court says.

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A divided Maryland high court Monday reinstated the first-degree murder conviction of a man who killed two Montgomery County teenagers on the eve of their high school graduation five years ago. In its 5-2 decision, the Court of Appeals overturned ...

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Maryland’s top court reinstated a double-murder conviction, saying an expert’s trial testimony regarding a killer’s height based on video was validly admitted.

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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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ANNAPOLIS – Saying the jury was improperly instructed on the violent crime’s elements, a divided Maryland high court has overturned the first-degree child abuse conviction of a father who allegedly wrapped his son in plastic and tied his wrists to ...

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Expert witnesses in civil litigation cannot be sued based on their testimony even if it reflected not their true opinion but what those paying for their court appearance wanted them to say, a divided federal appeals court ruled Friday in ...

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Those with an expertise in detecting when people are lying need not testify in Maryland courtrooms.

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Maryland’s main physicians’ organization is urging the House of Delegates to reject Senate-passed legislation that would permit doctors to spend more time testifying as experts in medical malpractice cases.

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ANNAPOLIS – Saying everyone knows what a GPS does, Maryland’s top court has ruled that an expert did not need to testify about the tracking device at the trial of a state transit police officer who was convicted of assault ...

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A board-certified pediatrician with 20 years’ experience can testify to the harm caused by lead exposure but not to the source of the poisoning without having examined the child, a divided Maryland high court ruled in reviving a Baltimore lead-poisoning lawsuit.

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