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OWENS v. STATE

No. 103, Sept.Term, 2006.

924 A.2d 1072 (2007)

399 Md. 388

Marcus Dannon OWENS v. STATE of Maryland.

Court of Appeals of Maryland.

June 5, 2007.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Peter F. Rose, Asst. Public Defender (Nancy S. Forster, Public Defender, and Stacy W. McCormack, Asst. Public Defender, on brief), Baltimore, for Petitioner.

Mary Ann Ince, Asst. Atty. General (Douglas F. Gansler, Atty. General, on brief), Baltimore, for Respondent.

Argued Before BELL, C.J., RAKER, CATHELL, HARRELL, BATTAGLIA, GREENE and ALAN M. WILNER (Retired, specially assigned), JJ.

HARRELL, Judge.

Trial by jury is lauded as "the very palladium of free government,"1 and a "sacred bulwark of the nation."2 Thomas Jefferson lauded "trial by jury as the only anchor ever yet imagined by man, by which a government can be held to the principles of its constitution." 3 WRITINGS OF THOMAS JEFFERSON 71 (Washington ed., 1861). Encroachment on this institution...

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