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FAULK v. STATE'S ATTY. FOR HARFORD CO.

No. 1491, September Term, 1981.

52 Md. App. 616 (1982)

451 A.2d 936

CURLEY L. FAULK v. STATE'S ATTORNEY FOR HARFORD COUNTY.

Court of Special Appeals of Maryland.

Decided November 3, 1982.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Stuart L. Alison, with whom was James A. Close on the brief, for appellant.

Diana Motz, Assistant Attorney General, with whom were Stephen H. Sachs, Attorney General, and James L. Shea, Assistant Attorney General, on the brief, for appellee.

The cause was argued before MOYLAN, J., and W. ALBERT MENCHINE, Associate Judge of the Court of Special Appeals (retired), and JAMES S. GETTY, Chief Judge of the Fourth Judicial Circuit, specially assigned.

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

This appeal raises the single issue of whether the Public Information Act of 1970, codified as Article 76A of the Annotated Code, has, advertently or inadvertently, expanded the right to discovery available to a criminal defendant under Maryland Rule 741. We have no difficulty in holding that it has not.

Neither the Maryland Public Information Act nor its federal...

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