State v. Armstead

"Ninety-nine bottles of beer on the wall, Ninety-nine bottles of beer. You swab one down and run it through CODIS, Ninety-eight bottles of beer on the wall."

Lines spoken by the character Greg Sanders on "CSI" Season 3, Episode 19 "A Night at the Movies" (CBS-TV. Episode aired 10 April 2003)

At the core of this post-conviction case is the rectitude of the failure of trial counsel for Appellee, Kevin Armstead, to object to a so-called "anti-CSI effect" 1 voir dire question propounded on 25 March 2009 to the venire by a trial judge of the Circuit Court for Baltimore City. Armstead contends that…