Murder Conviction For 2011 Shooting Survives Daubert Challenge

(September 7, 2017, 9:02 AM EDT) -- CINCINNATI — An Ohio federal court correctly denied habeas relief to a man convicted of murder because a state trial court’s admission of bullet trajectory testimony by a police officer did not provide a basis to challenge the conviction under Daubert v. Merrell Dow Pharmaceuticals, Inc., the Sixth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals ruled July 3 (Michael P. Smith v. Warden, Ross Correctional Institution, No. 16-3157, 6th Cir., 2017 U.S. App. LEXIS 16936)....

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