Dillon v. State

0’Donnell, J.,

delivered the opinion of the Court. Levine and Eldridge, JJ., dissent and Levine, J., filed a dissenting opinion in which Eldridge, J., concurs at page 588 infra. Smith, J., concurs in part and dissents in part and filed an opinion concurring in part and dissenting in part at page 594 infra.

The question which we are here called upon to decide is: whether the appellant’s motion for a mistrial should have been granted after the trial court, as part of its advisory instructions, read to the jury the “Declaration of Policy” set forth by the legislature as the preamble to Maryland…