MATTER OF MURPHY

No. 647, 658, September Term, 1971.

15 Md. App. 434 (1972)

291 A.2d 867

MATTER OF KING RICARDO MURPHY. MATTER OF LLOYD DAVID MURPHY.

Court of Special Appeals of Maryland.

Decided June 2, 1972.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Autry N. Noblitt for appellants in Nos. 647 and 658.

Emory Alvin Plitt, Jr., Assistant Attorney General, with whom were Francis B. Burch, Attorney General, Arthur A. Marshall, Jr., State's Attorney for Prince George's County, and Charles S. Hamilton, III, Assistant State's Attorney for Prince George's County, on the brief, for appellee in No. 647.

James G. Klair, Assistant Attorney General, with whom were Francis B. Burch, Attorney General, Arthur A. Marshall, Jr., State's Attorney for Prince George's County, and William B. Spellbring, Assistant State's Attorney for Prince George's County, on the brief, for appellee in No. 658.


ORTH, J., delivered the opinion of the Court.

These appeals concern waiver of jurisdiction in juvenile causes under Code, Art. 26, § 70-16.

Matter of Waters, 13 Md.App. 95, made clear that the purposes of a preliminary hearing were not the purposes of a waiver hearing. We said that "* * * the sole function of the [waiver] hearing is to resolve the question of waiver...

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