Brashear v. State

GARRITY, Judge.

Daniel Timothy Brashear, the appellant, was convicted by a jury (Casula, J., presiding) in the Circuit Court for Prince George’s County of second-degree murder. A thirty-year prison sentence, the maximum allowed by law, was imposed. On appeal, appellant charges that the trial judge erred in the following ways:

1. He refused to remove a racial epithet from a tape recording which was admitted into evidence;

2. He refused to strike the jury on the theory that the State had used its peremptory challenges in a racially discriminatory manner;

3. He refused to suppress from the evidence…