The work of a state police forensics expert who killed himself amid allegations he lied about having college degrees has withstood its first legal challenge.
A Baltimore City circuit judge rejected an inmate?s attempt to challenge his 1989 murder conviction because Joseph Kopera, the state?s firearms-identification expert, lied about his educational background at trial.
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