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STATE v. PAGANO

No. 69, September Term, 1995.

341 Md. 129 (1996)

STATE OF MARYLAND v. SUSAN HOPE PAGANO.

Court of Appeals of Maryland.

January 16, 1996.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Kathryn Grill Graeff, Assistant Attorney General, (J. Joseph Curran, Jr., Attorney General, on brief), Baltimore, for petitioner.

Margaret A. Mead (Roland Walker, Walker & Van Bavel, P.A., on brief), Baltimore, for respondent.

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

MURPHY, Chief Judge.

The issue in this case is whether lying to a police officer during an investigation and before the initiation of judicial proceedings and instructing others to do the same constitutes an obstruction of justice under Maryland Code (1957, 1992 Rep.Vol., 1995 Supp.) Article 27, § 26. That section provides:

Intimidating or corrupting jurors, etc.; obstructing justice.

If any person [1] by corrupt means or by threats or force...

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