Baltimore Police Homicide Detective Marcus Smothers testified that he did not think Dana Davenport told the truth during his interrogation about a deadly shooting.

In 2024, Davenport stood trial in Baltimore Circuit Court in the killing of Tyrone Walker, which happened on South Loudon Avenue in Irvington on June 5, 2022. He was 37.

Davenport, 32, of Reisterstown, was found guilty of first-degree murder and related offenses and sentenced to life in prison — plus 25 years.

But a Maryland appeals court later threw out his convictions after ruling that a judge should not have allowed Smothers to testify about whether Davenport was being truthful and taken corrective action.

Through a series of events, Davenport was released from custody — even though prosecutors planned to retry the case. The Baltimore City Sheriff’s Office arrested him three weeks later.

“We need to understand how this happened to prevent this from happening in the future,” Baltimore City Sheriff Sam Cogen said in a statement.

In a statement, Yianni Varonis, a spokesperson for the Maryland Department of Public Safety and Correctional Services, said the agency “acted in full accordance with all applicable laws, policies, and court directives,” adding that “any claims to the contrary are both false and reckless.”

The Appellate Court of Maryland on Feb. 26 formally sent the case back for a new trial.

Varonis noted that the order did not specify that Davenport should be held without bond.

On March 3, Davenport was released from North Branch Correctional Institution.

He then had to deal with an unrelated case in which he failed to appear for court in 2022 in Baltimore County after a Maryland Transit Administration Police officer had cited him for smoking at the Owings Mills Metro Station.

He was released on March 4 on his own recognizance.

But on March 5, Baltimore Circuit Judge Melissa K. Copeland ordered Davenport to be transferred to a jail in Baltimore and held without bail.

By then, he had already been released.

Prosecutors only discovered what happened after Davenport contacted detectives about retrieving his belongings and left a voicemail claiming “vindictive prosecution,” said James Bentley, a spokesperson for the Baltimore State’s Attorney’s Office.

Assistant State’s Attorney Rita Wisthoff-Ito on March 17 requested an arrest warrant, which Copeland issued later that same day.

The sheriff’s office received the warrant on March 18 and processed it within 24 hours, which resulted in the information being shared with local and national law enforcement.

Deputies with the Special Operations Division conducted an investigation and arrested Davenport on Tuesday in West Baltimore.

On Wednesday, Davenport appeared back in court for a bail review hearing and agreed to a more than two-week postponement.

“I’m still lost and confused to everything that’s going on,” he said. “I just got picked up off the street.”

His attorney, Assistant Public Defender Marci Tarrant Johnson, said she wanted to conduct legal research.

Usually, Johnson said, appeals courts in their decisions include instructions about further proceedings. But she said the opinion only stated that her client’s convictions were overturned.

“It’s confusing to me,” Johnson said, “because it’s a novel situation.”

Now, Davenport is being held in the Baltimore Central Booking & Intake Center.