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THORNTON v. STATE

No. 1608, September Term, 2003.

876 A.2d 142 (2005)

162 Md. App. 719

Tamere Hassan THORNTON v. STATE of Maryland.

Court of Special Appeals of Maryland.

June 15, 2005.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Nancy S. Forster (Eve L. Brensike, Asst. Public Defenders, on the brief), Baltimore, for appellant.

Rachel Marblestone Kamins (J. Joseph Curran, Jr., Atty. Gen., on the brief), Baltimore, for appellee.

Panel: MURPHY, C.J., KRAUSER, JOHN C. ELDRIDGE, (Retired Specially Assigned) JJ.

KRAUSER, J.

Following a bench trial in the Circuit Court for Baltimore County, sixteen-year-old Tamere Hassan Thornton was convicted of the second-degree murder of seventeen-year-old Kevin Taylor as well as carrying a weapon openly with the intent to injure.1 Sentencing the youth to a term of fourteen years' imprisonment for second-degree murder, the court lamented:

I think the word most used about this case is the word tragedy...

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