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U.S. v. Berry, No. 08-35002 (9th Cir.) (624 F.3d 1031) (October 22, 2010) (Judge A. Wallace Tashima)

Loaded on Jan. 10, 2011 published in Punch and Jurists January 10, 2011
Filed under: Due Process, Punch And Jurists.

Here the Court rejected a series of claims that convictions in a bombing case should be vacated principally because the Government used evidence based on the now-discredited forensic technique known as compositional analysis of bullet lead (CABL).

This is an interesting decision which addresses a forensic testing technique long used ...

 

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