HERNANDEZ v. STATE

No. 40, Sept. Term, 1999.

742 A.2d 952 (1999)

357 Md. 204

Jorge HERNANDEZ v. STATE of Maryland.

Court of Appeals of Maryland.

December 21, 1999.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Daniel H. Weiss, Assistant Public Defender (Stephen E. Harris, Public Defender, on brief), Baltimore, for petitioner.

Sarah Page Pritzlaff, Assistant Attorney General (J. Joseph Curran, Jr., Attorney General of Maryland, on brief), Baltimore, for respondent.

Argued before BELL, C.J., and ELDRIDGE, RODOWSKY, RAKER, WILNER, CATHELL, and ROBERT L. KARWACKI (retired, specially assigned), JJ.


RODOWSKY, Judge.

The petitioner, Jorge Hernandez (Hernandez), was convicted in the Circuit Court for Montgomery County of child abuse and second degree rape. At trial Hernandez testified in Spanish, through an interpreter. Hernandez here contends that the trial court improperly refused to propound his requested voir dire question sixteen, reading, "Is there any member of the panel who would be prejudiced against a defendant because of any defendant's race,...

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