SURLAND v. STATE

Nos. 8, September Term, 2005, 45, September Term, 2005.

895 A.2d 1034 (2006)

392 Md. 17

Carl SURLAND v. STATE of Maryland. Stefan Tyson Bell v. State of Maryland.

Court of Appeals of Maryland.

April 11, 2006.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Martha Weisheit, Assistant Public Defender (Nancy S. Forster, Public Defender, Baltimore, for appellant in 8 Sept. Term, 2005.

Sarah Page Pritzlaff, Assistant Attorney General (J. Joseph Curran, Jr., Attorney General of Maryland, Baltimore), on brief, for appellee in 8 Sept. Term, 2005 and for respondent in 45 Sept. Term, 2005.

George E. Burns, Jr., Assistant Public Defender (Nancy S. Forster, Public Defender, Baltimore), on brief, for petitioner in 45 Sept. Term, 2005.

Argued before BELL, C.J., RAKER, WILNER, CATHELL, HARRELL, BATTAGLIA and GREENE, JJ.


WILNER, J.

We are asked in these two cases to revisit what the appropriate response should be when a defendant, convicted in a Circuit Court of a criminal offense, notes a timely appeal to the Court of Special Appeals (or, in a death penalty case, to this Court) but dies before the appeal is decided.

The law throughout the country seems clear, and by now mostly undisputed, that, if the defendant's conviction has already been affirmed on direct appeal and the...

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