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JOHNSON v. STATE

[Nos. 9 and 22, September Term, 1981.]

292 Md. 405 (1982)

439 A.2d 542

LAWRENCE JOHNSON v. STATE OF MARYLAND

Court of Appeals of Maryland.

Decided January 7, 1982.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

George E. Burns, Jr., Assistant Public Defender, with whom were Alan H. Murrell, Public Defender, and Gary S. Offutt, Assistant Public Defender, on the brief, for appellant.

Deborah K. Handel and Stephen B. Caplis, Assistant Attorneys General, with whom was Stephen H. Sachs, Attorney General, on the brief, for appellee.

The cause was argued before MURPHY, C.J., and SMITH, DIGGES, ELDRIDGE, COLE, DAVIDSON and RODOWSKY, JJ.

DIGGES, J., delivered the opinion of the Court. ELDRIDGE, COLE and DAVIDSON, JJ., dissent. ELDRIDGE, J., filed a dissenting opinion at page 444 infra, in which COLE and DAVIDSON, JJ., concur. COLE, J., filed a dissenting opinion at page 456 infra, in which ELDRIDGE and DAVIDSON, JJ., concur.

Lawrence Johnson was convicted, after removal of this criminal cause from Baltimore County, by a jury in the Circuit Court for Calvert County of first degree murder...

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