TRACY v. STATE

No. 108, September Term, 1989.

319 Md. 452 (1990)

573 A.2d 38

BRIAN MATTHEW TRACY v. STATE OF MARYLAND.

Court of Appeals of Maryland.

May 8, 1990.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mark Colvin, Asst. Public Defender (Alan H. Murrell, Public Defender, both on brief), Baltimore, for petitioner.

Gwynn X. Kinsey, Jr., Asst. Atty. Gen. (J. Joseph Curran, Jr., Atty. Gen., both on brief), Baltimore, for respondent.

Argued before ELDRIDGE, COLE, RODOWSKY, McAULIFFE, ADKINS and CHASANOW, JJ., and CHARLES E. ORTH, Jr., Associate Judge of the Court of Appeals of Maryland (retired), Specially Assigned.


CHASANOW, Judge.

On November 22, 1987, Richard Purman was shot to death. The next day Petitioner Brian Matthew Tracy, 16, was arrested, and confessed to having shot and killed Purman. Tracy told police that he and two friends planned to run away to California, and in furtherance of their plot, they decided to steal Purman's automobile for their trip and to kill Purman.

On January 14, 1988, a four count criminal information was filed in the Circuit Court for...

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