JACKSON v. STATE

No. 79, September Term, 1990.

322 Md. 117 (1991)

586 A.2d 6

ALLAN JACKSON, JR. v. STATE OF MARYLAND.

Court of Appeals of Maryland.

February 25, 1991.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Arthur A. DeLano, Jr., Asst. Public Defender, and Stephen E. Harris, Public Defender, Baltimore, on brief, for petitioner.

Mary Ellen Barbera, Asst. Atty. Gen., and J. Joseph Curran, Jr., Atty. Gen., Baltimore, on brief, for respondent.

Argued before ELDRIDGE, RODOWSKY, McAULIFFE and CHASANOW, JJ., CHARLES E. ORTH, Jr. and MARVIN H. SMITH, Associate Judges of the Court of Appeals (retired), Specially Assigned, and A. OWEN HENNEGAN, Judge of the Third Judicial Circuit (retired), Specially Assigned.


CHARLES E. ORTH, Jr., Judge, Specially Assigned.

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Justice is the objective of Maryland's judicial process. The process reaches for this objective by seeking the truth. It seeks the truth by means of a fair trial. In our administration of criminal justice, a fair trial is one which is in accord with the organic, statutory and common law to which an accused is subject, either by way of entitlement or obligation.1 To assure that...

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