ISLEY v. STATE

No. 6910, Sept. Term, 1998.

743 A.2d 772 (2000)

129 Md. App. 611

William Charles ISLEY v. STATE of Maryland.

Court of Special Appeals of Maryland.

January 4, 2000.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John Christopher Belcher, Oxon Hill, for appellant.

Jason F. Trumpbour, Staff Attorney (J. Joseph Curran, Jr., Attorney General and Diane E. Keller, Assistant Attorney General, on the brief), Baltimore, for appellee.

Argued before MURPHY, C.J., and MOYLAN and SALMON, JJ.


MOYLAN, Judge.

This appeal affords us the opportunity to examine in some depth the fundamental nature of a Motion for a New Trial. We will be particularly concerned with the threshold question of the reviewability of a trial judge's decision either to deny or to grant a new trial. Our focus will also be on the contrasting natures and purposes of, on the one hand, 1) an appeal of a criminal conviction, which is decided by...

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