BOOZE v. STATE

No. 105, Sept. Term, 1996.

698 A.2d 1087 (1997)

347 Md. 51

Donald E. BOOZE v. STATE of Maryland.

Court of Appeals of Maryland.

August 26, 1997.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Michael R. Malloy, Assistant Public Defender (Stephen E. Harris, Public Defender, on brief), Baltimore, for Petitioner.

Gary E. Bair, Assistant Attorney General (J. Joseph Curran, Jr., Attorney General, on brief), Baltimore, for Respondent.

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


WILNER, Judge.

The question put to us by petitioner, Donald Booze, is whether a defendant in a criminal case who has elected a jury trial is entitled either by due process or by Maryland law to the right of "informed and comparative rejection" of prospective jurors. We need not answer such a broad question. We shall conclude that what the Circuit Court for Baltimore City did in this case violated the clear mandate of Maryland Rule 4-312(g) and, because that violation...

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