STATE v. GORMAN

No. 147, September Term, 1987.

315 Md. 402 (1989)

554 A.2d 1203

STATE OF MARYLAND v. ROBERT WILLIAM GORMAN.

Court of Appeals of Maryland.

March 27, 1989.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mary Ellen Barbera, Asst. Atty. Gen. (J. Joseph Curran, Jr., Atty. Gen., Baltimore), on brief, for appellant/cross-appellee.

Jose Felipe Anderson, Asst. Public Defender (Alan H. Murrell, Public Defender, Baltimore), on brief, for appellee/cross-appellant.

Argued before MURPHY, C.J., ELDRIDGE, COLE, RODOWSKY, McAULIFFE and BLACKWELL, JJ., and CHARLES E. ORTH, JR., Associate Judge of the Court of Appeals of Maryland (retired), Specially Assigned.


CHARLES E. ORTH, Jr. (Ret.), Specially Assigned, Judge.

This appeal is concerned with the peremptory challenge, "`one of the most important of the rights'" in our justice system. Swain v. Alabama, 380 U.S. 202, 219, 85 S.Ct. 824, 835, 13 L.Ed.2d 759 (1965), quoting Pointer v. United States, 151 U.S. 396, 408, 14 S.Ct. 410, 414, 38 L.Ed. 208 (1894). See Batson v. Kentucky, ...

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