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 »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 »September 29, 2020 Comments Off on Court’s decision not to reconsider Daubert ruling draws pointed dissents
Two Maryland high court judges have taken the unusual step of sharply criticizing their colleagues for declining to reconsider their decision last month that permits judges to admit into evidence scientific conclusions based on emerging theories that have been peer-reviewed ...
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Read More »September 1, 2020 Comments Off on Md. high court adopts new standard for scientific testimony
A divided Maryland high court has opened trials to a broader range of science-based testimony than that which is “generally accepted” among scientists, ruling that judges may admit into evidence scientific conclusions based on emerging theories that have been peer ...
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Read More »January 23, 2017 Comments Off on DNA test used by FBI admissible in Md., high court says
If the DNA test is good enough for the FBI, it’s good enough for us, Maryland’s top court says in upholding a double-murder conviction and double-life sentence.
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Read More »October 6, 2016 Comments Off on Md. high court weighs DNA admissibility in double homicide
A criminal defense attorney urged Maryland’s top court Thursday to overturn a double first-degree murder conviction because it was based on an unreliable DNA test, while an attorney for the state pressed the judges to defer to a trial court’s acceptance of the genetic evidence linking the killer to the slayings.
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