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Thursday, December 04, 2014

Md. Court: DNA Evidence At Trial Must Be Confirmed

BALTIMORE (AP) -- Maryland's highest court has ruled that criminal defendants can't present evidence of DNA matches to other suspects at trial unless additional testing has confirmed the results.

In a ruling last week, the Maryland Court of Appeals found that defense attorneys have the same burden as prosecutors when presenting DNA evidence.

The court's ruling upholds the conviction of two Maryland men on charges including attempted murder and burglary stemming from a 2009 Montgomery County home invasion. Both men are serving life sentences.

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1 comment:

Anonymous said...

I was under the impression that this had always been the case.