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LOVELESS v. STATE

No. 992, September Term, 1977.

39 Md. App. 563 (1978)

387 A.2d 311

MABLE DARCEL LOVELESS v. STATE OF MARYLAND.

Court of Special Appeals of Maryland.

Decided June 12, 1978.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

William A. Franch and Ronald H. Jarashow, with whom were Joseph P. Manck and Goldsborough, Franch & Collett on the brief, for appellant.

W. Timothy Finan, Assistant Attorney General, with whom were Francis Bill Burch, Attorney General, Warren B. Duckett, Jr., State's Attorney for Anne Arundel County, and David Cuttler, Assistant State's Attorney for Anne Arundel County, on the brief, for appellee.

The cause was argued before GILBERT, C.J., and MOYLAN and MELVIN, JJ.

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

This case should not be here. It illustrates for the ten thousandth time what happens when everyone overreacts. It typifies the painful procedural hangover that follows initial excess as even the law must ask in the cold light of the morning after, "What do we do now?" In the most basic of terms, a criminal trial was prematurely aborted when everyone pressed the panic button because somebody said a bad word in a courtroom...

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