ANNAPOLIS, Md. — A Maryland appeals court has thrown out the conviction of a Prince George’s County man in a 2023 Temple Hills shooting, ruling that police improperly seized his identification card and bloody clothing while he was in surgery at a Washington, D.C., hospital.
In a decision filed Nov. 21, 2025, the Appellate Court of Maryland ordered a new trial for Kimery Darren Martin, who had been found guilty by a Prince George’s County jury of attempted voluntary manslaughter, second-degree assault and related firearms offenses in the shooting of William Mason outside a liquor store. Mason was left paralyzed from the neck down.
Writing for the panel, Judge Tang said the trial court erred when it refused to suppress Martin’s identification card and blood-soaked clothing, which were taken without a warrant at George Washington University Hospital after Martin arrived with a gunshot wound to his leg. The court said prosecutors failed to justify the seizure under any exception to the Fourth Amendment’s warrant requirement…