COLEMAN v. STATE

No. 54, September Term, 1990.

321 Md. 586 (1991)

583 A.2d 1044

ANTHONY COLEMAN AND GREGORY HARRIS GIVENS v. STATE OF MARYLAND.

Court of Appeals of Maryland.

January 11, 1991.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Bradford C. Peabody, Asst. Public Defender (Stephen E. Harris, Public Defender, both on brief), Baltimore, for petitioners.

Diane E. Keller, Asst. Atty. Gen. (J. Joseph Curran, Jr., Atty. Gen., both on brief), Baltimore, for respondent.

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


CHARLES E. ORTH, Judge, Specially Assigned.

In these times, crimes of violence are often drug1 related. This appeal involves drug related crimes. The case demonstrates the dominant extent to which the rampant illicit dealings in drugs have intruded, both flagrantly and insidiously, into the life of the community and the lives of the people. The invidious influence of drugs was fully appreciated by the Legislature when it enacted the Controlled...

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