Klein v. Martin · ¶1

Respondent Charles Brandon Martin was convicted in a Maryland court for the attempted murder of one of his girlfriends, who was found unconscious in her apartment with a gunshot wound to the head. Three items found at the crime scene played a key part in the State's case: a shell casing and bullet from a .380-caliber cartridge and a peculiarly modified Gatorade bottle resembling a homemade silencer. Federal frearms records showed that Martin owned a .380-caliber semiautomatic handgun that could have fred the bullet and ejected the casing. As for the bottle, testing revealed DNA evidence that strongly implicated Martin, and a witness testified that, shortly before the shooting, Martin was in a room with a Gatorade bottle and the same kind of tape that was found on the bottle at the crime scene. In addition, Sheri Carter, another of Martin's girlfriends, testified that Martin had used a…

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