HARRIS v. STATE

No. 45, Sept. Term, 2021.

276 A.3d 1071 (2022)

479 Md. 84

Dawnta HARRIS v. STATE of Maryland.

Court of Appeals of Maryland.

June 8, 2022.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Argued by Megan E. Coleman (MarcusBonsib, LLC, Greenbelt, MD), on brief, for Petitioner.

Argued by Andrew J. DiMiceli , Asst. Atty. Gen. ( Brian E. Frosh , Atty. Gen. of Maryland, Baltimore, MD), on brief, for Respondent.

James L. Dold, Esq. , Counsel of Record, Human Rights for Kids, P.O. Box 5960, Washington, DC 20016, Mae C. Quinn, Esq. , University of District of Columbia, David A. Clarke School of Law, 4340 Connecticut Avenue, NW, Washington, DC 20008, for Amicus Curiae Human Rights for Kids.

Argued before: Getty, C.J., Watts, Hotten, Booth, Biran, Lynne A. Battaglia (Senior Judge, Specially Assigned), Robert N. McDonald (Senior Judge, Specially Assigned), JJ.


When he was sixteen years old, Dawnta Harris, Petitioner, skipped school and joined three teenage companions in driving a stolen Jeep to commit a series of burglaries in Baltimore County. In an attempt to evade Baltimore County Police Officer Amy Caprio, who had responded to the location of one of the burglaries, Petitioner drove the...

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