Supreme Court of Florida

Knife mark testing, which purports to exclude all other knives as a murder weapon based on microscopic features unique to each blade, is still not scientifically reliable to support a conclusion that only one knife was the murder weapon.

Appellate Information

• Decided 12/20/2001
• Published 12/20/2001

Judges

• SHAW, J.

Court

• Supreme Court of Florida

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Bennett H. Brummer, Public Defender, and Christina A. Spaulding, Assistant Public Defender, Eleventh Judicial Circuit, Miami, FL, for Appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• Robert A. Butterworth, Attorney General, and Sandra S. Jaggard, Assistant Attorney General, Miami, FL, for Appellee.