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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Appellant maintains that the court erred in excluding Dr. Klein’s testimony regarding the causal nexus between the injuries sustained and the Property being the source of the lead paint exposure. Appellee responds that Dr. Klein lacked the sufficient factual basis to opine as to either.

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1. Did the court abuse its discretion by qualifying a police officer as an expert in CDS identification, packaging, and sales when the officer had undergone no special training in that field and had never testified before as an expert? 2. Did the court plainly err by instructing the jury on “believable doubt” rather than reasonable doubt?

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In a medical malpractice case, did the circuit court err in dismissing an informed consent claim based on ambiguity in the allegations? Did the court abuse its discretion by excluding expert testimony for failing to satisfy the causation requirement?

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