CLEMONS v. STATE

No. 70, September Term, 2005.

896 A.2d 1059 (2006)

392 Md. 339

Gemar CLEMONS v. STATE of Maryland.

Court of Appeals of Maryland.

April 19, 2006.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Julia Doyle Bernhardt, Asst. Public Defender (Nancy S. Forster, 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., RAKER, WILNER, CATHELL, HARRELL, BATTAGLIA and GREENE, JJ.


BATTAGLIA, J.

This case presents us with the task of determining whether certain conclusory aspects of comparative bullet lead analysis ("CBLA") are admissible under the standard enunciated in Frye v. United States, 293 F. 1013 (D.C.Cir.1923), and adopted by this Court in Reed v. State, 283 Md. 374, 391 A.2d 364 (1978), which makes evidence emanating from a novel scientific process inadmissible...

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