STATE v. COOK

No. 110, September Term, 1994.

338 Md. 598 (1995)

STATE OF MARYLAND v. HAROLD THOMAS COOK.

Court of Appeals of Maryland.

June 22, 1995.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mary Ellen Barbera, Asst. Atty. Gen. (J. Joseph Curran, Jr., Atty. Gen., Gary E. Bair, Asst. Atty. Gen., Rachel Marblestone Kamins, Staff Atty., all on brief), Baltimore, for petitioner.

Victor J. D'Avella, Bel Air, for respondent.

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


CHASANOW, Judge.

In the present case, we are asked to review a trial judge's decision in a criminal trial to remove a seated juror and replace him with an alternate juror pursuant to Maryland Rule 4-312. We hold that the defendant is not entitled to a new trial by virtue of the juror replacement.

I.

This case stems from the 1993 conviction in the Circuit Court for Harford County of Harold Thomas Cook on charges of sexually abusing his stepdaughter...

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