STEVENSON v. STATE

No. 46, September Term, 1983.

299 Md. 297 (1984)

473 A.2d 450

DOROTHY L. STEVENSON v. STATE OF MARYLAND.

Court of Appeals of Maryland.

April 9, 1984.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Gary W. Christopher, Asst. Public Defender, Baltimore (Alan H. Murrell, Public Defender, Baltimore, on brief), for appellant.

Carmina Szunyog, Asst. Atty. Gen., Baltimore (Stephen H. Sachs, Atty. Gen., Baltimore, on brief), for appellee.

Argued before MURPHY, C.J., and SMITH, ELDRIDGE, COLE, DAVIDSON, RODOWSKY and COUCH, JJ.


COUCH, Judge.

We are asked to hold that the Circuit Court for Kent County (Clark, J.) erred in denying appellant's motion for a new trial in this criminal case. The motion was based on the newly discovered evidence that one of the state's expert witnesses had perjured himself with respect to his academic credentials. We affirm.

The facts giving rise to the issue before us may be succinctly stated. The appellant was charged with the first degree murder of her...

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