Legal Opinion
Scott v. State
Supreme Court of Minnesota
Decided September 23, 2010No. A09-1769PublishedCited by 6 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
PAGE, Justice.
After a 1992 jury trial, appellant James Leroy Scott was found guilty and subsequently convicted of first-degree murder in Todd County District Court and sentenced to life in prison. At trial, as it did in Gassler v. State, 787 N.W.2d 575 (Minn. 2010), the State presented the testimony of *499an FBI agent who, relying on Composite Bullet Lead Analysis (CBLA),1 testified that a pellet recovered from the victim’s body “could have” come from a box of ammunition tied to Scott and that the pellet from the victim’s body and pellets from the box of ammunition connected to Scott were…
2Cases cited5 opinions
- State v. GrillerSupreme Court of Minnesota · 1998
- Gassler v. StateSupreme Court of Minnesota · 2010
- State v. ScottSupreme Court of Minnesota · 1992
- Johnson v. St. Paul City Railway Co.Supreme Court of Minnesota · 1897
- Bronzin Holding Co. v. McGeeSupreme Court of Minnesota · 1926
3Cited by6 opinions
- Riley v. StateSupreme Court of Minnesota · 2012
- Berkovitz v. StateSupreme Court of Minnesota · 2013
- Miles v. StateSupreme Court of Minnesota · 2011
- Phillip Anthony Roberts v. State of MinnesotaCourt of Appeals of Minnesota · 2014
- Ward v. StateCourt of Special Appeals of Maryland · 2015
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