Alonzo Jay King, Jr., Respondent
Kannon K. Shanmugan, Counsel of Record
On April 10, 2009, Alonzo Jay King, Jr. was arrested for first- and second-degree assault after allegedly pointing a shotgun at a group of people. As required by a 2008 Maryland law, police took a DNA sample from a swab of King’s inner cheek. Four months later, after King had pled guilty to second-degree assault, the test produced a match in a national DNA database of open criminal cases to a sample recovered from the rape of a woman in Maryland in 2003. Based on the DNA results, a second DNA sample was taken from King, and King was charged…
