Legal Opinion
Eiland v. State
Court of Special Appeals of Maryland
Decided October 8, 1992No. 903, 951, September Term, 1991PublishedCited by 40 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MOYLAN, Judge.
On the afternoon of December 4,1990, in what turned out to be a highly publicized murder case, James “Jay” S. Bias, III, the younger brother of former University of Maryland basketball star Len Bias, was senselessly gunned down in cold blood as he was leaving the parking lot of the Prince George’s Plaza Mall. In a joint trial before a Prince George’s County jury, presided over by Judge G.R. Hovey Johnson, the appellants, Gerald Wynn Eiland and Jerry Samuel Tyler, were convicted of that murder.
Tyler was convicted of murder in the first degree and the use of a handgun in the…
2Cases cited80 opinions
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3Cited by40 opinions
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