Malik v. State

A jury in the Circuit Court for Baltimore City convicted appellant, Tariq Malik, of murdering five women in December, 1999. The circuit court sentenced Malik to what amounted to six consecutive life sentences, eight consecutive twenty-year sentences, and a consecutive thirty-year sentence. Malik presents five questions for our review.

I. Did the lower court err by denying Malik’s motion to dismiss for violations of his right to a speedy trial?

II. Did the lower court err by granting the State’s motion to exclude evidence tending to implicate Ronald McNeil in the murders and McNeil’s statements…