Legal Opinion
Bellard v. State
Court of Special Appeals of Maryland
Decided August 31, 2016No. 1281/14PublishedCited by 3 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtOpinion by Nazarian, J.
This quadruple-murder case presents, among other things, the question of whether legislation repealing Maryland’s death penalty in 2013 also created new rights for defendants facing life imprisonment without the possibility of parole. Darrell Bellard was convicted by a jury in the Circuit Court for Prince George’s County of four counts of first-degree murder, three counts of conspiracy to commit murder, and other related offenses. The court (not a jury) sentenced him to life without parole for the first-degree murders and consecutive life sentences for the three conspiracy convictions.
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2Cases cited49 opinions
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- Apprendi v. New JerseySupreme Court of the United States · 2000
- Schneckloth v. BustamonteSupreme Court of the United States · 1973
- Mapp v. OhioSupreme Court of the United States · 1961
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3Cited by3 opinions
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