RICKETTS v. STATE

No. 1261, September Term, 1979.

46 Md. App. 410 (1980)

417 A.2d 465

LAMONT WILLIAM RICKETTS v. STATE OF MARYLAND.

Court of Special Appeals of Maryland.

Decided July 16, 1980.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Michael R. Malloy, Assistant Public Defender, with whom was Alan H. Murrell, Public Defender, on the brief, for appellant.

Thomas P. Barbera, Assistant Attorney General, with whom were Stephen H. Sachs, Attorney General, Warren B. Duckett, Jr., State's Attorney for Anne Arundel County, and Scott Patterson, Assistant State's Attorney for Anne Arundel County, on the brief, for appellee.

The cause was argued before MORTON, THOMPSON and COUCH, JJ.


COUCH, J., delivered the opinion of the Court. THOMPSON, J., dissents and files a dissenting opinion at page 418 infra.

Lamont William Ricketts, the appellant, was convicted of larceny after a bench trial in the Circuit Court for Anne Arundel County. Judge H. Chester Goudy, Jr. imposed a sentence of ten years. He complains here that the jury trial was not properly waived, that the trial court erred in ruling that the appellant's suitcase was lawfully seized...

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