HAMILTON v. STATE

No. 1133, September Term, 1988.

79 Md. App. 140 (1989)

555 A.2d 1089

WALTER THURMAN HAMILTON v. STATE OF MARYLAND.

Court of Special Appeals of Maryland.

Certiorari Denied July 21, 1989.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John L. Kopolow, Asst. Public Defender (Alan H. Murrell, Public Defender, on the brief), Baltimore, for appellant.

Thomas K. Clancy, Asst. Atty. Gen. (J. Joseph Curran, Jr., Atty. Gen., Baltimore, and Alexander Williams, Jr., State's Atty. for Prince George's County, Upper Marlboro, on the brief), for appellee.

Argued before WILNER, BISHOP and FISCHER, JJ.


WILNER, Judge.

A jury in the Circuit Court for Prince George's County found appellant guilty of first degree rape, kidnapping and assault with intent to disable. For those crimes, he was sentenced to life imprisonment.

Appellant makes three complaints in this appeal, but we need consider only one — that the court erred in permitting him to testify even though there were indications that he did not fully understand the scope of his right to remain silent...

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