Clemons v. State

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 P. 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 absent a finding that the process is generally accepted by the relevant scientific community. We determine here that the conclusory aspects of CBLA are not generally accepted within the scientific community and…