Attorneys from Maryland?s Innocence Project finished five days of testimony Wednesday in the first legal challenge to the work of a state police forensics expert who took his own life amid allegations he lied in court testimony.

The project?s lawyers say lies that former state police forensics expert Joseph Kopera told a Baltimore County Circuit jury caused the jury, in part, to wrongfully convict James Kulbicki, 50, of Baltimore, of murdering his lover, Gina Neuslein, in 1993.