Bomas v. State

Petitioner, Tavon Bomas a/k/a Tavon Bomar (hereinafter “Bomar”) 1 was tried and convicted in the Circuit Court for Baltimore City of second-degree murder and use of a handgun in a crime of violence. Bomar’s conviction rested principally on the eyewitness identification of him by an off-duty detective. We granted his request for a writ of certiorari to review the standard by which trial judges determine whether to admit expert testimony on eyewitness identification and to decide if the Circuit Court exercised proper discretion in excluding such proffered expert testimony in this case. Although…