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STATE v. STANDIFUR

No. 136, September Term, 1985.

310 Md. 3 (1987)

526 A.2d 955

STATE OF MARYLAND v. LARRY RAMOUN STANDIFUR AND COLONEL HILLARD HENRY.

Court of Appeals of Maryland.

June 19, 1987.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Valerie J. Smith, Asst. Atty. Gen. (Stephen H. Sachs, Atty. Gen. and Deborah K. Chasanow, Asst. Atty. Gen., on the brief), Baltimore, for appellant.

Melissa M. Moore, Asst. Public Defender (Alan H. Murrell, Public Defender, on the brief), Baltimore, for Larry Ramoun Standifur.

Andre M. Davis (William H. Murphy, Jr. and Lecia M. Eason, on the brief), Baltimore, for Colonel Hillard Henry.

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

McAULIFFE, Judge.

This case presents the question of whether a declaration against the penal interest of an unavailable witness, offered by the State against the accused in a criminal trial, is sufficiently reliable to qualify under the common law exception to the hearsay rule and to satisfy the Confrontation Clauses of the Constitution of the United States and the Declaration of Rights of Maryland.

The Appellees, Larry Ramoun Standifur and Colonel Hillard...

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