WALKER v. STATE

No. 62, September Term, 1994.

338 Md. 253 (1995)

LEBON BRUCE WALKER AND PATRICIA ANNETTE LEE v. STATE OF MARYLAND.

Court of Appeals of Maryland.

Reconsideration Denied June 15, 1995.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Martha Weisheit, Asst. Public Defender (Stephen E. Harris, Public Defender, on brief), Baltimore, for appellants.

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

Argued before MURPHY, C.J., and ELDRIDGE, RODOWSKY, CHASANOW, KARWACKI, BELL and RAKER, JJ.


RAKER, Judge.

This case presents the question of whether a trial court may permit a criminal trial to proceed in the defendant's absence if the defendant is informed of when the trial will commence and then voluntarily fails to appear on that date. We answer in the affirmative.

After a jury trial in absentia in the Circuit Court for Montgomery County, appellants Lebon Bruce Walker and Patricia Annette Lee were each convicted of conspiracy to commit theft and...

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