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WILSON v. STATE

No. 19, Sept. Term, 2001.

803 A.2d 1034 (2002)

370 Md. 191

Garrett Eldred WILSON, v. STATE of Maryland.

Court of Appeals of Maryland.

August 5, 2002.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John L. Kopolow, Asst. Public Defender (Stephen E. Harris, Public Defender, on brief), Baltimore, for petitioner.

Steven L. Holcomb, Asst. Atty. Gen. (J. Joseph Curran, Jr., Atty. Gen. of Maryland, on brief), Baltimore, for respondent.

Argued before BELL, C.J., and ELDRIDGE, RAKER, WILNER, CATHELL, HARRELL and BATTAGLIA, JJ.

RAKER, Judge.

The primary question we address in this appeal is whether the trial court abused its discretion in permitting the State to use statistical data and a product rule computation to prove the improbability of two Sudden Infant Death Syndrome ("SIDS")1 deaths in a single family. We shall hold that because the evidence did not satisfy the test we adopted in Reed v. State,

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