Legal Opinion
Williamson v. State
Court of Appeals of Maryland
Decided April 22, 2010No. 61 September Term, 2009PublishedCited by 36 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
BATTAGLIA, Judge.
The writers for the NBC television series Law & Order Special Victims Unit would be hard pressed to author an episode full of more issues involving DNA than found in this case in which the Anne Arundel County police, in 2006, matched DNA of the Appellant, Kelroy Williamson, retrieved from his discarded McDonald’s cup to the DNA found in two separate rape victims’ forensic medical examinations in 1994 and 2002. Williamson was convicted by a jury in the Circuit Court for Anne Arundel County in 2007 on charges of rape and related offenses1 for the 2002 crime, and he appealed to…
2Cases cited52 opinions
- Katz v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1967
- Mapp v. OhioSupreme Court of the United States · 1961
- North Carolina v. AlfordSupreme Court of the United States · 1970
- Hudson v. PalmerSupreme Court of the United States · 1984
- Rakas v. IllinoisSupreme Court of the United States · 1979
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3Cited by36 opinions
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