Legal Opinion
Williams v. State
Court of Special Appeals of Maryland
Decided July 7, 2021No. 1403/19Published
1Opinion of the Court
Nicholas Jabbar Williams v. State, No. 1403, September Term, 2019. Opinion by Ripken, J. CRIMINAL LAW – VERDICT – LEGAL INCONSISTENCY Jury verdicts of not guilty of first-degree assault based on use of a firearm and guilty of second-degree murder are not legally inconsistent because the former is not a lesser- included offense of the latter. EVIDENCE – OPINION EVIDENCE – EXAMINATION OF EXPERTS The proponent of expert testimony bears the burden to establish, by a preponderance of the evidence, the reliability of an expert’s methodology under Maryland Rule 5-702 as interpreted by the Daubert…
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