Trimble v. State

James Russell Trimble, the appellant, has been an inmate committed to the custody of the Commissioner of Correction for nearly 24 years. He is serving multiple life sentences and other sentences in connection with a 1981 rape and murder, as well as a double kidnapping. In this appeal, Trimble challenges an order of the Circuit Court for Baltimore County, dated May 28, 2003, by which the court denied his request for the appointment of counsel to assist him in obtaining postconviction DNA testing.

ISSUES

Trimble argues, in essence, that the trial court erred by denying the request for the…