TORBIT v. STATE

No. 564, September Term, 1994.

102 Md. App. 530 (1994)

JERRY LEE TORBIT v. STATE OF MARYLAND.

Court of Special Appeals of Maryland.

December 6, 1994.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Frances E. Kessler (Joseph B. Tetrault, on the brief), Baltimore, for appellant.

Julia M. Freit, Asst. Atty. Gen. (J. Joseph Curran, Jr., Atty. Gen., on the brief), Baltimore, for appellee.

Argued before BISHOP, BLOOM, and DAVIS, JJ.


BLOOM, Judge.

Appellant, Jerry Lee Torbit II, is a prisoner at the Maryland Correctional Adjustment Center in Baltimore City. Having converted to the Islamic faith, he desires to change his name by formal legal process to Khaliq Al-Shakur Muhammad, a name that he has been using "for a considerable period of time" while in prison. Accordingly, he filed in the Circuit Court for Baltimore City a pro se Petition for Change of Name and Request for Waiver of Publication...

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