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April 2, 2008

Man indicted by federal grand jury in 2006 killing at mall

A federal grand jury indicted a 23-year-old man yesterday in the January 2006 fatal shooting of a Security Square Mall merchant, a rare single-murder case for federal prosecutors, who took over after a state judge excluded fingerprint evidence.

February 21, 2008

U.S. eyeing county case

The top federal prosecutor for Maryland said yesterday he is reviewing a Baltimore County death penalty case hindered by a judge's decision to exclude fingerprint evidence that state prosecutors say tied the defendant to the fatal shooting of a Security Square Mall merchant two years ago during an attempted carjacking.

November 5, 2007

Defender spotlights faulty forensics

Call it the CSI list: fingerprints, gunshot residue, ballistics, toxicology, bite patterns - the full rundown of forensic methods used by prosecutors to link defendants to crime scenes.

October 30, 2007

Judge asked to revisit print ruling

Likening the court ruling to barring testimony about X-rays because doctors sometimes misread them, Baltimore County prosecutors asked a Circuit Court judge yesterday to reconsider her precedent-shattering decision that fingerprint evidence is too unreliable to be offered in a death penalty trial.

October 29, 2007

Science, tradition at war in forensics

Law professor David Faigman was teaching at a national school for judges the week that a ruling to limit testimony about fingerprint evidence was issued in a murder case in Philadelphia.

October 23, 2007

Judge bars use of partial prints in murder trial

A Baltimore County judge has ruled that fingerprint evidence, a mainstay of forensics for nearly a century, is not reliable enough to be used against a homicide defendant facing a possible death sentence - a finding that national experts described yesterday as unprecedented and potentially far-reaching.

March 6, 2007

Lawyers want to bar death penalty in case

Lawyers representing the man charged in the fatal shooting of a Security Square Mall merchant last year asked a judge yesterday to prevent prosecutors from seeking the death penalty against him.

June 27, 2006

Death penalty to be sought in mall killing

Baltimore County prosecutors have filed notice of their intent to seek the death penalty against a man charged in the January shooting and attempted carjacking of a Security Square Mall merchant on the parking lot outside the shopping center.

January 19, 2006

Suspect arrested in mall killing

A man wanted in the fatal shooting this month of a store owner outside Security Square Mall was arrested yesterday at a house in Northwest Baltimore, Baltimore County police said.

January 18, 2006

Prosecutors sought prison for suspect

Baltimore County prosecutors asked in September for prison time for the man wanted in the killing this month of a merchant outside Security Square Mall, a deputy state's attorney said yesterday.

January 13, 2006

Suspect in mall death convicted recently

The man wanted in the killing of a merchant last week outside Security Square Mall avoided prison time three months earlier, when he went to court facing the possibility of years behind bars for an earlier conviction for stealing a police car, court records show.

January 12, 2006

More than 300 mourners attend funeral for merchant killed at Security Square Mall

As a Security Square Mall merchant who was fatally shot in a parking lot at the shopping center was buried yesterday, authorities continued their search for a suspect in the killing -- a Baltimore man who had been accused two years ago of trying to drive a stolen car head-on into a police car and, months later, of ramming a police cruiser.

January 11, 2006

City man, 21, charged in fatal mall shooting

A warrant has been issued for the arrest of a Baltimore man charged in the fatal shooting of a Security Square Mall merchant last week on a parking lot at the Woodlawn shopping center, authorities said yesterday.

Sun coverage: Trial of Brian Keith Rose

Warren T. Fleming (pictured) was killed during a car jack attempt in 2006. (Handout photo / January 5, 2006)

PDF: Judge's decision on admissibility of fingerprint evidence in State of Maryland v. Bryan Rose