Legal Opinion
Kretchmar v. Federal Bureau of Investigation
District Court, District of Columbia
Decided March 27, 2014No. Civil Action No. 12-1551 (KBJ)PublishedCited by 4 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MEMORANDUM OPINION
KETANJI BROWN JACKSON, United States District Judge
Plaintiff Gary Kretchmar (“Plaintiff’ or “Kretchmar”) is serving a life sentence following his 1988 conviction in Pennsylvania state court for first-degree murder. (Compl., ECF No. 1, ¶ 17.) At his trial, a Federal Bureau of Investigation (“FBI”) Special Agent testified about a forensic technique known as “Comparative Bullet Lead Analysis” (“CBLA”) that the FBI laboratory conducted on certain evidence that investigators recovered from the murder scene. (Id. ¶¶ 15-16.) Shortly after Kretehmar’s conviction, there was…
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