(AP) — An appeals court has thrown out a murder conviction for a young man in the 2014 shooting death of his 20-year-old brother in southern Michigan. The Jackson Citizen Patriot reports (http://bit.ly/2s3QRsd ) a three-judge Michigan Court of Appeals panel found that a Jackson County judge improperly admitted both testimony from a detective presented as an expert in "linguistic statement analysis" and statements made by three of the victim's friends.