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SMITH v. COM.

Record No. 021583.

576 S.E.2d 465 (2003)

265 Va. 250

James Allen SMITH, Jr. v. COMMONWEALTH of Virginia.

Supreme Court of Virginia.

February 28, 2003.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Craig S. Cooley (James S. Yoffy; Brenner, Evans & Yoffy, Richmond, on brief), for appellant.

Michael T. Judge, Assistant Attorney General (Jerry W. Kilgore, Attorney General, on brief), for appellee.

Present: HASSELL, C.J., and LACY, KEENAN, KOONTZ, KINSER, and LEMONS, JJ., and CARRICO, S.J.

Opinion by Justice ELIZABETH B. LACY.

In this appeal, James Allen Smith, Jr., argues that his convictions for first-degree murder and use of a firearm in the commission of first-degree murder should be reversed because the trial court erred in admitting expert opinion testimony on "blood spatter analysis."2 Because we conclude that blood spatter analysis is a matter for expert testimony and that a sufficient evidentiary foundation for...

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