Collins v. State

HARRELL, Judge.

After a four-day trial in the Circuit Court for Baltimore City, Julius Collins, Petitioner, was convicted by a jury of first degree murder and related handgun offenses. On 11 May 2001, the trial judge imposed a sentence of life imprisonment for the murder conviction and twenty years, to be served consecutively, for the handgun offenses. The convictions were affirmed by the Court of Special Appeals in an unreported opinion. Collins petitioned this Court for a writ of certiorari, which we granted. Collins v. State, 369 Md. 659, 802 A.2d 438 (2002).

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On 13 April 2000, Dion Gibson…