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By THE BOSTON GLOBE | August 31, 1996
A second finding of microscopic traces of explosives in the debris of TWA Flight 800 has taken federal investigators a significant step closer to concluding that an explosive device -- and not mechanical failure -- downed the plane, a law enforcement source said yesterday."
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By Neil D. Isaacs | December 24, 1991
DURING the Willie Smith trial, we saw a great deal of evidence, presented in meticulous and lurid detail, but we never saw the single most crucial piece of physical evidence -- the beach towel.The beach towel supported every aspect of the defense's version of what happened, neatly wrapping up acts of mutually consensual sex on the beach and the lawn. It's hard to imagine a rapist tackling a victim on a towel spread out for the occasion. But the towel was never produced in evidence. Why not?
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By Nick Madigan, The Baltimore Sun | September 27, 2010
Enduring a barrage of highly detailed scientific testimony, jurors in the Kenneth N. Harris murder trial appeared to have difficulty staying awake Monday during a long cross-examination of a DNA analyst. Lawyers defending three men charged in the former Baltimore councilman's killing two years ago directed a stream of questions at the state's witness, Kelly Miller, a DNA analyst with the Police Department's crime lab, who had testified that evidence at the crime scene came into contact with the defendants.
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By Kris Antonelli and Kris Antonelli,SUN STAFF | May 17, 1997
After deliberating for two days, jurors yesterday convicted Donald W. Jones of stabbing, raping and robbing his Overlea neighbor, a 63-year-old grandmother of two.Jones, 26, who faces the death penalty, hung his head and looked at the floor as the jury in Anne Arundel County -- where the case was tried -- announced its verdict.The family of the victim -- Evelyn Jane Cunningham, who was found in the bathtub of her Baltimore County home Dec. 15, 1995 -- appeared to begin to cry.Cunningham's son, David, said: "Two days is not a long time, but when you are waiting for something like this, it seems like forever."
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By Arthur Hirsch, The Baltimore Sun | January 3, 2012
A 13-year-old girl who was sexually assaulted in a Woodlawn roller skating rink in 2010 took the witness stand Tuesday in Baltimore County Circuit Court, pointing to Davon Perry as one of three males who took part in the attack. The girl from Baltimore told the jury that Perry, whom she referred to as "the tall one," was in the dark storage room at Skateworks the night of Aug. 14, as were two others she described only as "the skinny one" and "the fat one. " She broke into tears as she described how one by one, the three performed sex acts with her. Perry, 26, who was living in Pikesville before his arrest, has been charged with several counts, including first-degree rape and first-degree sex offenses.
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By Michael Dresser, The Baltimore Sun and Baltimore Sun reporter | March 27, 2011
Jami Grant, director of the forensic science program at the University of Baltimore and mentor to many of Maryland's detectives and crime scene technicians, died Wednesday of pneumonia at a hospital in Flagstaff, Ariz. The Ruxton resident, who was traveling to the Grand Canyon when she became ill, was 51. Mel Laney, a Reisterstown resident and her companion of three years, said Dr. Grant had been in robust health until a cold developed into a rare form of pneumonia that couldn't be brought under control.