Maryland Supreme Court ruling places limits on ballistics testimony
A Maryland Supreme Court ruling questions how reliable ballistics science is and how it can be used in criminal trials. Attorneys for a convicted killer in...
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A Maryland Supreme Court ruling questions how reliable ballistics science is and how it can be used in criminal trials. Attorneys for a convicted killer in...
ANNAPOLIS AP) — A firearms expert who testified at a Maryland murder trial shouldn’t have been allowed to offer an unqualified opinion that bullets recovered from a crime scene came
A firearms expert who testified at a Maryland murder trial shouldn’t have been allowed to offer an unqualified opinion that bullets recovered from a crime scene came from the suspect’s gun, the state’s highest court concluded in a ruling that will limit the use such testimony in the state’s courts.
In Maryland, firearms experts will no longer be allowed to testify that a specific gun fired a specific bullet, the state’s highest court ruled in an opinion published Tuesday.
A firearms expert who testified at a Maryland murder trial shouldn’t have been allowed to offer an unqualified opinion that bullets recovered from a crime scene came from the suspect’s