U.S. Supreme Court rules Anne Arundel County man will not get new trial in attempted murder

By: William J. Ford

Outlets: Maryland Matters

Published: January 27, 2026

Words: 930

Last Updated: 3 weeks, 3 days ago

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The U.S. Supreme Court ruled Monday that an Anne Arundel County man should not get a new trial in the attempted murder of his pregnant girlfriend after prosecutors withheld some information from him in the case.

The unsigned decision by the court went against rulings by two lower federal courts that had granted Charles Brandon Martin a new trial in the 2008 shooting of his girlfriend, Jodi Torok. Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson was the …

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