Reed v. State

Murphy, C. J., and Smith and Orth, JJ., dissent and Smith, J., filed a dissenting opinion in which Murphy, C. J., and Orth, J., concur at page 400 infra.

The issue in this criminal case is the admissibility of voice identification testimony based on the analysis of spectrograms, commonly described as “voiceprints.”

In September 1974, a woman was raped, late at night, outside her home in Montgomery County, Maryland. She immediately entered a hospital for treatment and reported the incident to the police. The following afternoon, she received a telephone call from a person who identified himself…