STOKES v. STATE

No. 47, Sept. Term, 2003.

843 A.2d 64 (2004)

379 Md. 618

Dontee STOKES v. STATE of Maryland.

Court of Appeals of Maryland.

February 18, 2004.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Lisa J. Sansone (Law Office of Lisa Sansone of the Law Office of Lisa J. Sansone, Warren A Brown of Warren A. Brown, P.A. of Baltimore), on brief for appellant.

Diane E. Keller, Assistant Attorney General (J. Joseph Curran, Jr., Attorney General of Maryland, on brief), Baltimore, for appellee.

Argued before BELL, C.J., RAKER, WILNER, CATHELL, HARRELL, BATTAGLIA, and JOHN C. ELDRIDGE (Retired, specially assigned), JJ.


RAKER, Judge.

This criminal case presents issues relating to a defendant's right to a trial by a jury of twelve jurors and the treatment of alternate jurors in a case in which the defendant has entered a plea of not criminally responsible and requests a bifurcated trial. In the guilt/innocence stage of the trial, the Circuit Court for Baltimore City retained the four alternate jurors and permitted them to participate in the...

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