BRIDGES v. STATE

No. 1414, Sept. Term, 1996.

695 A.2d 609 (1997)

116 Md. App. 113

Connie F. BRIDGES v. STATE of Maryland.

Court of Special Appeals of Maryland.

June 26, 1997.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Martha Weisheit, Assistant Public Defender (Stephen E. Harris, Public Defender, on the brief), Baltimore, for Appellant.

Celia Anderson Davis, Assistant Attorney General (J. Joseph Curran, Jr., Attorney General, and Patricia Jessamy, State's Attorney for Baltimore City, on the brief), Baltimore, for Appellee.

Submitted before MOYLAN and SALMON, JJ., and PAUL E. ALPERT, Judge (retired), Specially Assigned.


MOYLAN, Judge.

The core issue on this appeal can most starkly be set out by posing a hypothetical. Hypothesize a jury selection process in which the attorney for a party (whether the trial be criminal or civil is immaterial; whether the party be on one side of the trial table or the other is equally immaterial) has just exercised his tenth and last peremptory challenge. The attorney for the opposing party objects, claiming...

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