EVANS v. STATE

Nos. 107, 122-124 September Term, 2005.

914 A.2d 25 (2006)

Vernon EVANS, Jr. v. STATE of Maryland (Three Cases). Vernon Evans, Jr. et al. v. Mary Ann Saar, Secretary et al.

Court of Appeals of Maryland.

Reconsideration Denied February 2, 2007.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Julie Sippel Dietrich (Jeffrey B. O'Toole of O'Toole, Rothwell, Nassau & Steinbach; A. Stephen Hut, Jr., Todd C. Zubler, Kalea Seitz Clark, Ann Harden Tindall and Ann H. Geraghty of Wilmer, Cutler, Pickering, Hale & Dorr, LLP, on brief), Washington, DC, for Appellant in Nos. 107 and 124.

Annabelle L. Lisic, Asst. Atty. Gen. (J. Joseph Curran, Jr., Atty. Gen. of MD, and Cathleen C. Brockmeyer, Asst. Atty. Gen.; Scott S. Oakley and Michael O. Doyle, Asst. Attys. Gen., Dept. of Public Safety & Correctional Services, on brief), Baltimore, MD, for Appellee in No. 107.

Todd C. Zubler (A. Stephen Hut, Jr., Kalea Seitz Clark, Ann Harden Tindall and Ann H. Geraghty of Wilmer, Cutler, Pickering, Hale & Dorr, LLP; Jeffrey B. O'Toole and Julie Sippel Dietrich of O'Toole, Rothwell, Nassau & Steinbach, on brief), Washington, DC, for Appellants in No. 122.

Scott S. Oakley and Michael O. Doyle, Asst. Attys. Gen., Dept. of Public Safety & Correctional Services (J. Joseph Curran, Jr., Atty. Gen. of MD, Annabelle L. Lisic, and Cathleen C. Brockmeyer, Asst. Attys. Gen., on brief), Baltimore, MD, for Appellees in No. 122.

A. Stephen Hut, Jr. (Todd C. Zubler, Kalea Seitz Clark, Ann Harden Tindall and Ann H. Geraghty of Wilmer, Cutler, Pickering, Hale & Dorr, LLP; Jeffrey B. O'Toole and Julie Sippel Dietrich of O'Toole, Rothwell, Nassau & Steinbach, on brief), Washington, DC, for Appellants in No. 123.

Annabelle L. Lisic, Asst. Atty. Gen. (J. Joseph Curran, Jr., Atty. Gen. of MD, and Cathleen C. Brockmeyer, Asst. Atty. Gen.; Scott S. Oakley and Michael O. Doyle, Asst. Attys. Gen., Dept. of Public Safety & Correctional Services, on brief), Baltimore, MD, for Appellee in Nos. 123 and 124.

Argued Before BELL, C.J. RAKER, WILNER, HARRELL, BATTAGLIA, GREENE and LAWRENCE F. RODOWSKY (Retired, Specially Assigned), JJ.


WILNER, Judge.

On April 28, 1983, Vernon Evans, for a fee of $9,000 paid by or on behalf of his friend, Anthony Grandison, walked into the Warren House Motel in Baltimore County and murdered David Piechowicz and Susan Kennedy by shooting nineteen bullets at them. The murder of Ms. Kennedy was a mistake; Evans thought she was Piechowicz's wife, Cheryl. Evans was hired to kill the Piechowiczes in order to prevent them from testifying...

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