CRUZ-QUINTANILLA v. STATE

No. 44, September Term, 2016.

165 A.3d 517 (2017)

455 Md. 35

Oscar CRUZ-QUINTANILLA v. STATE of Maryland.

Court of Appeals of Maryland.

July 31, 2017.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Argued by Gregory W. Gardner , Assigned Public Defender (Boulder, CO), on brief, for Petitioner.

Argued by Ryan R. Dietrich , Asst. Atty. Gen. ( Brian E. Frosh , Atty. Gen. of Maryland, Baltimore, MD), on brief, for Respondent.

Argued before Barbera, C.J., Greene, Adkins, McDonald, Watts, Hotten, Getty, JJ.


We consider in this case whether evidence of a convicted defendant's membership in a gang is admissible at sentencing, where the gang membership is unrelated to the underlying criminal conviction but the evidence establishes that all gang members are aware of, and required to participate in, the criminal acts of violence of the gang...

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