Kennedy v. State

In a bench trial before the Circuit Court for Prince George’s County (Parker, J.) appellant, Lawrence Kennedy, then 17 years of age, was convicted of robbery with a deadly weapon and use of a handgun in the commission of a crime of violence, and was sentenced to consecutive terms of ten and five years. His appeal raises no challenge to the merits of his conviction but is confined to the contentions that:

1) Code, Art. 26, § 70-2 (d) (3), containing the jurisdictional authorization for appellant’s trial in the Circuit Court, is impermissibly and unconstitutionally vague; and

2) the trial judge…