JENKINS v. STATE

No. 107, Sept. Term, 2002.

825 A.2d 1008 (2003)

375 Md. 284

Marvin JENKINS v. STATE of Maryland.

Court of Appeals of Maryland.

June 12, 2003.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Sherrie B. Glasser, Asst. Public Defender (Stephen E. Harris, Public Defender, on brief), Baltimore, for petitioner/cross-respondent.

Zoe Gillen White, Asst. Atty. Gen. (J. Joseph Curran, Jr., Atty. Gen., on brief), Baltimore, for respondent/cross-petitioner.

Argued Before BELL, C.J., and ELDRIDGE, RAKER, WILNER, CATHELL, HARRELL and BATTAGLIA, JJ.


CATHELL, Judge.

Marvin Jenkins, petitioner, seeks review of a judgment of the Maryland Court of Special Appeals affirming a trial judge's dismissal of petitioner's motion for a new trial. As relevant here, that motion had alleged, as grounds, an improper contact between a juror and a detective witness for respondent, the State of Maryland.

After various pre-trial motions were heard, petitioner was tried by a jury from March 19th to March 30th, 2001. Petitioner...

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