Lipinski v. State

CHARLES E. ORTH, Jr., Judge, Specially Assigned.

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Robert Patrick Lipinski does not dispute that he killed Eugenia Courtalis. The State does not dispute that the judgment entered against Lipinski is flawed because the Circuit Court for Baltimore County, which found Lipinski guilty of murder in the first degree, gave a definition of “deliberate and premeditated” at odds with the meaning of that phrase as amplified by us in Willey v. State, 328 Md. 126, 613 A.2d 956 (1992), some nine months after Lipinski’s trial. 1 The question is what sanction is to be applied because of the trial court’s…