Hof v. State

BELL, Judge.

Robert Alan Hof, the petitioner, was tried by a jury in the Circuit Court for Baltimore County for robbery, robbery with a dangerous and deadly weapon, assault, theft, and the unlawful use of a handgun in the commission of a felony. At the close of the evidence, the trial judge instructed the jury to consider the petitioner’s confession only if it found beyond a reasonable doubt that the petitioner had been given and knowingly and willingly waived, his Miranda1 warnings. He also told the jury that the burden was on the State to prove, beyond a reasonable doubt, that the petitioner…