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BROOKS v. STATE

No. 115, September Term, 1983.

299 Md. 146 (1984)

472 A.2d 981

KARL LEVI BROOKS v. STATE OF MARYLAND.

Court of Appeals of Maryland.

April 3, 1984.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mark Colvin, Asst. Public Defender, Baltimore (Alan H. Murrell, Public Defender and George E. Burns, Jr., Asst. Public Defender, Baltimore, on brief), for appellant.

Jillyn K. Schulze, Asst. Atty. Gen., Baltimore (Stephen H. Sachs, Atty. Gen., Baltimore, on brief), for appellee.

Argued before SMITH, ELDRIDGE, COLE, DAVIDSON, RODOWSKY and COUCH, JJ., and CHARLES E. ORTH, Jr., Retired, Specially Assigned Judge.

CHARLES E. ORTH, Jr., Retired, Specially Assigned Judge.

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Our colonial forefathers had experienced "the close connection of criminal law with politics.... [T]heir constant fear of political oppression through the criminal law led them and the generation following ... to give excessive power to juries and to limit or even cut off the power of the trial judge to control the trial and hold the jury to its province." Slansky v. State,

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