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MARYLAND v. KING

No. 12-207.

133 S.Ct. 1958 (2013)

186 L.Ed.2d 1

MARYLAND, Petitioner v. Alonzo Jay KING, Jr.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided June 3, 2013.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Katherine Winfree, Baltimore, MD, for Petitioner.

Michael R. Dreeben, for the United States as amicus curiae, by special leave of the Court, supporting the Petitioner.

Kannon K. Shanmugam, Washington, DC, for Respondent.

Douglas F. Gansler, Attorney General of Maryland, Katherine Winfree, Chief Deputy Attorney General, Counsel of Record, Brian S. Kleinbord, Robert Taylor, Jr., Assistant Attorneys General, Mary Ann Rapp Ince, Daniel J. Jawor, Carrie J. Williams, Assistant Attorneys General, Office of the Attorney General, Baltimore, MD, for Petitioner.

Paul B. DeWolfe, Public Defender, Stephen B. Mercer, Chief Attorney, Forensics Division Office of the Public Defender, Baltimore, MD, Kannon K. Shanmugam, Counsel of Record, James M. McDonald, Kristin A. Feeley, David M. Horniak, Williams & Connolly LLP, Washington, DC, for Respondent.

Justice KENNEDY delivered the opinion of the Court.

In 2003 a man concealing his face and armed with a gun broke into a woman's home in Salisbury, Maryland. He raped her. The police were unable to identify or apprehend the assailant based on any detailed description or other evidence they then had, but they did obtain from the victim a sample of the perpetrator's DNA.

In 2009 Alonzo King was arrested in Wicomico County, Maryland, and charged with first- and...

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