Jackson v. State

Petitioner, Stephen Blair Jackson, in 2015 filed a petition for DNA testing pursuant to Section 8-201 of the Criminal Procedure Article of the Maryland Code. 1 In his Petition, Jackson alleged that testing a piece of underwear for the presence of his DNA as well as testing of additional material collected on laboratory microscope slides, which remained from a Sexual Assault Forensics Exam (“SAFE”) that had been performed on a victim, known as Patricia M., in 1998, “ha[ve] the potential to show that Petitioner’s DNA is not on the complainant’s underwear, evidence that would have been…