STATE v. BROBERG

No. 22, Sept. Term, 1995.

677 A.2d 602 (1996)

342 Md. 544

STATE of Maryland v. Paul Everett BROBERG.

Court of Appeals of Maryland.

June 11, 1996.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Kimberly Smith Ward, Assistant Attorney General (J. Joseph Curran, Jr., Attorney General, on brief), Baltimore, for Petitioner.

Kevin G. Hessler (James Robert Miller, Miller, Steinberg & Hessler, on brief), Rockville, for Respondent.

Russell P. Butler, Camp Springs, for Amicus Curiae, Stephanie Roper Foundation, Mothers Against Drunk Driving (MADD), The National Victim Center, and the Maryland Coalition against Crime.

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


RAKER, Judge.

We granted certiorari in this case to determine whether "in life" photographs, depicting a homicide victim while the victim was alive, may be displayed to the jury at trial.

I.

On April 25, 1993, Respondent Paul Everett Broberg was driving along a two-lane road in Frederick County. The posted speed limit was fifty miles per hour. As Broberg drove over the crest of a hill, he struck and killed eleven-year-old Thomas Blank, Jr., who was...

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