# Wilson v. State

> Court of Appeals of Maryland · August 5, 2002 · 370 Md. 191

URL: https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/cases/9759683

## Case

- **Full name:** Garrett Eldred WILSON, v. STATE of Maryland
- **Court:** Court of Appeals of Maryland
- **Decided:** August 5, 2002
- **Citations:** 370 Md. 191; 803 A.2d 1034; 2002 Md. LEXIS 553
- **Precedential status:** Published
- **Opinion:** Concurrence by Harrell
- **Judges:** Harrell, Raker
- **Cited by:** 49 later opinions in the Frix Law Library

## Citator (automated)

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## How later opinions describe it (automated extraction)

- holding that an expert’s conclusion that SIDS deaths in a single family are genetically related was inadmissible even when based on a reliable statistical method—the “product rule”—because there was not general agreement in the medical community for such a conclusion
- noting that “the issue of recurrent SIDS within a family raises the possibility of genetically determined conditions.... But when SIDS occurrences among siblings of SIDS cases were compared with those among non-SIDS siblings in maternal age—and birth rank matched—control famil…

## Opinion text

Concurring Opinion by
HARRELL, Judge.
I join in the judgment based solely on the discussion in Part III of the opinion regarding the prosecutor’s prejudicial error in commenting on the statistical probability of innocence.

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