BLACKWELL v. STATE

[No. 45, September Term, 1976.]

278 Md. 466 (1976)

365 A.2d 545

BLACKWELL v. STATE OF MARYLAND

Court of Appeals of Maryland.

Certiorari denied May 16, 1977.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

George E. Burns, Jr., Assistant Public Defender, and Alan H. Murrell, Public Defender, with whom were Arnold M. Zerwitz and Elsbeth L. Bothe, Assistant Public Defenders, on the brief, for appellant.

Francis B. Burch, Attorney General, and Deborah K. Handel, Assistant Attorney General, with whom were Henry R. Lord, Deputy Attorney General, Clarence W. Sharp and Bernard A. Raum, Assistant Attorneys General, on the brief, for appellee.

The cause was argued before MURPHY, C.J., and SINGLEY, SMITH, DIGGES, LEVINE, ELDRIDGE and ORTH, JJ.


Certiorari denied, Supreme Court of the United States, May 16, 1977.

MURPHY, C.J., delivered the opinion of the Court.

Whether Maryland's death penalty statute violates the Eighth and Fourteenth Amendments to the federal constitution is the principal issue presented in this case.

Anthony Lee Blackwell, Sr., was charged in the Criminal Court of Baltimore in separate indictments with having, on July 17, 1975, "feloniously, wilfully and of deliberately...

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