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CALHOUN v. STATE

[No. 129, September Term, 1981 and No. 5, September Term, 1982.]

297 Md. 563 (1983)

468 A.2d 45

JAMES ARTHUR CALHOUN v. STATE OF MARYLAND

Court of Appeals of Maryland.

Certiorari denied May 14, 1984.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Gary W. Christopher and George E. Burns, Jr., Assistant Public Defenders, with whom were Alan H. Murrell, Public Defender, Arthur A. DeLano, Jr., Assistant Public Defender, Courtland K. Townsend, Jr., Assigned Public Defender, and James Cromwell, Assigned Public Defender, on the brief, for appellant.

Richard B. Rosenblatt, Assistant Attorney General, with whom were Stephen H. Sachs, Attorney General, and Deborah K. Handel, Assistant Attorney General, on the brief, for appellee.

Supplemental argument on January 6, 1983. George E. Burns, Jr., Assistant Public Defender, for appellant and Deborah K. Handel, Assistant Attorney General, for appellee.

The cause was argued before MURPHY, C.J., and SMITH, ELDRIDGE, COLE, DAVIDSON, RODOWSKY and COUCH, JJ.

Certiorari denied, Supreme Court of the United States, May 14, 1984.

SMITH, J., delivered the opinion of the Court. DAVIDSON, J., dissents and filed a dissenting opinion at page 646 infra.

In this case we shall affirm a death sentence. In the process we once again are involved with the matter of hypnotically enhanced testimony, this being the fifth of a series of cases presenting that issue. See State v. Collins, 296 Md. 670

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