Legal Opinion
Sangster v. State
Court of Special Appeals of Maryland
Decided March 5, 1987No. 751, September Term, 1986PublishedCited by 11 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
ALPERT, Judge.
Being disinclined to spend the next one hundred eleven years behind bars, appellant, Sigismund Nathaniel Sangster, asserts, among other things, that he was denied his constitutional right of confrontation at the hearing in which it was determined that he was mentally competent to stand trial. This case began with a “drug bust” which ended in a shootout between the police and the appellant. Evidence at trial in the Circuit Court for Prince George’s County revealed the following.
On the morning of May 2, 1985, police officers from the Prince George’s County Police Department’s Vice…
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