Legal Opinion
Washington v. State
Court of Appeals of Maryland
Decided November 1, 2016No. 5, Sept. Term, 2016PublishedCited by 11 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Barbera, C.J., Greene, Adkins, McDonald, Watts, Hotten, Getty, JJ.
Adkins, J.
**324Appellant Trendon Washington is serving a life sentence for conspiracy to commit murder. He filed a petition for postconviction DNA testing pursuant to Maryland Code (2001, 2008 Repl. Vol., 2016 Supp.), § 8-201 of the Criminal Procedure Article ("CP").1 The postconviction court dismissed his petition **325because he was not convicted of a crime of *345violence and is therefore not eligible for postconviction relief under the statute. We affirm the postconviction court's dismissal of Washington's petition, and hold…
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