Matthews v. State

Summary

The Court affirmed the circuit court’s denial of Matthews’s petition for post‑conviction DNA testing, holding that Maryland’s evidence‑preservation requirement does not extend to attempted murder convictions, that the statute is clear enough to forego the rule of lenity, and that the State was not required to preserve the destroyed glove. The decision rests on a plain‑text reading of CP § 8‑201 and the legislature’s historical amendments.