Legal Opinion
Wright v. State
Court of Appeals of Maryland
Decided October 17, 1986No. 61, September Term, 1984PublishedCited by 83 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
ELDRIDGE, Judge.
This criminal case presents two questions, one relating to petitioner Wright and the other relating to petitioner Coley.
The context of the first question is as follows. The petitioner Wright, along with three codefendants, was tried before a jury on a charge of murder, based upon a theory of willful, deliberate and premeditated murder as well as upon a theory of felony murder, and on a charge of an underlying attempted felony. At the conclusion of the State’s case, the trial judge granted a motion for a judgment of acquittal as to the attempted felony on the ground that the…
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