THORNTON v. STATE

No. 62, Sept. Term, 2005.

919 A.2d 678 (2007)

397 Md. 704

Tamere Hassan THORNTON v. STATE of Maryland.

Court of Appeals of Maryland.

March 20, 2007.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Eve L. Brensike, Assigned Pro Bono Counsel (University of Michigan Law School, Arm Arbor, MI; Nancy S. Forster, Public Defender and Michael R. Braudes, Assistant Public Defender, Baltimore), all on brief, for petitioner.

Celia Anderson Davis, Assistant Attorney General (J. Joseph Curran, Jr., Attorney General of Maryland, Baltimore), on brief, for respondent.

Argued before BELL, C.J., RAKER, WILNER, CATHELL, HARRELL, BATTAGLIA and GREENE, JJ.


GREENE, J.

Petitioner, Tamere Hassan Thornton, seeks review of a Court of Special Appeals's judgment affirming his conviction for murder in the second degree. In his petition for a writ of certiorari, which we granted, Thornton essentially presents two questions for our review:

1. Did the intermediate appellate court and the trial judge correctly interpret and apply the mens rea element of second-degree murder of the intent-to-inflict-grievous-bodily...

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