Lopez v. State

Curtis Maurice Lopez, appellant, entered Alford pleas 1 to the robbery and first-degree murder of Jane McQuain and the subsequent kidnapping and first-degree murder of her eleven-year-old son, William McQuain, in the Circuit Court for Montgomery County. He was thereafter sentenced, by that court, to multiple terms of imprisonment, the longest of which were two consecutive terms of life imprisonment, without the possibility of parole. 2 Subsequently, however, this Court granted Lopez’s application for leave to appeal. That application presented the two issues that are now before us, namely:

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