EVANS v. STATE

No. 81, September Term, 1988.

322 Md. 24 (1991)

585 A.2d 204

JOHNNY EVANS v. STATE OF MARYLAND.

Court of Appeals of Maryland.

Argued February 2, 1989.

Reargued January 3, 1991.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

George M. Lipman, Asst. Public Defender and George E. Burns, Jr., Asst. Public Defender (Alan H. Murrell, Public Defender, on brief), Baltimore, for petitioner.

Kreg Paul Greer, Asst. Atty. Gen. (J. Joseph Curran, Jr., Atty. Gen., both on brief), Baltimore, for respondent.

Reargued Before MURPHY, C.J., ELDRIDGE, RODOWSKY, McAULIFFE, CHASANOW, KARWACKI, JJ., and CHARLES E. ORTH, Jr. (Judge of the Court of Appeals of Maryland, retired, specially assigned).


McAULIFFE, Judge.

Johnny Evans was charged with murder and related offenses in connection with the slaying of a disc jockey at a Baltimore City nightclub. According to eyewitnesses, Evans left the club after having been involved in a fight with several of the club's employees, but returned with a sawed-off shotgun which he used to kill the disc jockey.

Evans entered pleas of "not guilty" and "not criminally responsible by reason of insanity." The sole expert...

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