Legal Opinion
Burch v. State
Court of Appeals of Maryland
Decided March 13, 2000No. 56, Sept. Term, 1999PublishedCited by 12 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
RAKER, Judge.
Heath William Burch was sentenced to death by a jury for the murders of Robert Davis and Cleo Davis. This Court affirmed the verdict and one of the two death sentences. See Burch v. State, 346 Md. 253, 696 A.2d 443 (1997). Following the denial of his petition for certiorari in the United States Supreme Court, 522 U.S. 1001, 118 S.Ct. 571, 139 L.Ed.2d 410 (1997), and the denial of all his claims for post-conviction relief, he requested the trial judge to set a hearing on a Motion for Reconsideration of Sentence he filed in 1996. The issue we must decide in this case is whether the…
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