Legal Opinion
Evans v. State
Court of Appeals of Maryland
Decided December 19, 2006No. 107, 122-124 September Term, 2005PublishedCited by 91 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
WILNER, Judge.
On April 28,1983, Vernon Evans, for a fee of $9,000 paid by or on behalf of his friend, Anthony Grandison, walked into the Warren House Motel in Baltimore County and murdered David Piechowicz and Susan Kennedy by shooting nineteen bullets at them. The murder of Ms. Kennedy was a mistake; Evans thought she was Piechowicz’s wife, Cheryl. Evans was hired to kill the Piechowiczes in order to prevent them from testifying against Grandison in a pending Federal criminal case that was scheduled for trial a week later.
In May, 1984, a jury in the Circuit Court for Worcester County, to…
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