Carey v. State

The appellant, Alford Robus Carey, Jr., was found guilty of five counts of bribery (Md. Code Ann., Art. 27, § 23) and one count of extortion (Art. 27, § 562). His four day trial on these charges took place in December 1977, in the Circuit Court for Anne Arundel County before Judge E. Mackall Childs, presiding without a jury. After the completion of the trial on December 22, 1977, the judge took the case under advisement and on January 9, 1978, read and filed in open court a written 27% page “Memorandum of Opinion” that reviewed in detail the voluminous evidence and set forth the verdicts and…