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GOODE v. STATE

Nos. 616, 617, September Term, 1978.

41 Md. App. 623 (1979)

398 A.2d 801

ABRAHAM GOODE v. STATE OF MARYLAND. DAVID JEROME WALKER v. STATE OF MARYLAND.

Court of Special Appeals of Maryland.

Decided March 8, 1979.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Patricia A. Logan, Assistant Public Defender, with whom was Alan H. Murrell, Public Defender, on the brief, for appellants.

Stephen B. Caplis, Assistant Attorney General, with whom were Francis Bill Burch, Attorney General, William A. Swisher, State's Attorney for Baltimore City, and Richard Berger, Assistant State's Attorney for Baltimore City, on the brief, for appellee.

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

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

Part of the majesty of American law is the power conferred upon the courts to strike down statutes which run afoul of the Constitution of the United States. No act of Congress or the Legislature may authorize a violation of the Constitution. United States v. Brignoni-Ponce, 422 U.S. 873, 95 S.Ct. 2574, 45 L.Ed.2d 607 (1975); Almeida-Sanchez v. United States,

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