WOODSON v. STATE

No. 61, September Term, 1990.

325 Md. 251 (1992)

600 A.2d 420

SHAWN WOODSON v. STATE OF MARYLAND.

Court of Appeals of Maryland.

January 24, 1992.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Nancy S. Forster, Asst. Public Defender and Mark Colvin, Asst. Public Defender (Stephen E. Harris, Public Defender, all on brief), Baltimore, for appellant.

Richard B. Rosenblatt, Asst. Atty. Gen. (J. Joseph Curran, Jr., Atty. Gen., both on brief), Baltimore, for appellee.

Argued before MURPHY, C.J., ELDRIDGE, RODOWSKY, McAULIFFE, CHASANOW, KARWACKI, JJ., and EDWARD A. DeWATERS, Jr., Administrative Judge of the Third Judicial Circuit of Md., specially assigned.


MURPHY, Chief Judge.

Officer William J. Martin of the Baltimore City Police Department was shot to death in the early morning hours of October 10, 1989 while responding to an anonymous call reporting drug use in the stairwell of an apartment building at 1502 Pennsylvania Avenue. A second officer, Herman Brooks, was shot and wounded during the incident.

Shawn Woodson was arrested at the scene. He was subsequently indicted for the first degree murder of Officer...

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