THOMPSON v. STATE

No. 174 September Term, 1989.

80 Md. App. 676 (1989)

566 A.2d 126

ARTHUR THOMPSON v. STATE OF MARYLAND.

Court of Special Appeals of Maryland.

November 30, 1989.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Michael R. Malloy, Asst. Public Defender (Alan H. Murrell, Public Defender on the brief), Baltimore, for appellant.

Beverly Peyton Griffith, Asst. Atty. Gen. (J. Joseph Curran, Jr., Atty. Gen., on the brief), Baltimore, for appellee.

Submitted before BISHOP and KARWACKI, JJ., and JAMES S. GETTY (Retired, Specially Assigned).


JAMES S. GETTY, Judge, Specially Assigned.

The novel question posed by this case is whether the State is precluded from introducing evidence allegedly seized from a defendant where a demand has been made that the State establish the chain of custody of the property seized and the State cannot produce the officer who seized the property, because he is deceased.

In a thorough and well-reasoned opinion, Judge Prevas, presiding in the Circuit Court for Baltimore...

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