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WHITTLESEY v. STATE

No. 16 September Term, 1994.

340 Md. 30 (1995)

MICHAEL WHITTLESEY v. STATE OF MARYLAND.

Court of Appeals of Maryland.

September 28, 1995.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Nancy M. Cohen, Assistant Public Defender (Stephen E. Harris, Public Defender; George E. Burns, Jr. (argued) and Margaret L. Lanier, Assistant Public Defenders, all on brief), Baltimore, for appellant.

Tarra DeShields-Minnis, Assistant Attorney General (J. Joseph Curran, Jr., Attorney General, both on brief), Baltimore, for appellee.

Argued before ELDRIDGE, RODOWSKY, CHASANOW, KARWACKI, BELL and RAKER, JJ., and JOHN F. McAULIFFE, J. (Retired, Specially Assigned).

RAKER, Judge.

Appellant Michael Whittlesey was convicted by a jury in the Circuit Court for Caroline County, the Honorable J. Owen Wise presiding, of the first degree murder of James Rowan Griffin. The same jury then sentenced him to death. On this appeal, Whittlesey raises eleven issues for our review. Four of his assignments of error relate to the validity of his conviction:

(1) The State engaged in race discrimination in the use of its peremptory strikes...

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