Legal Opinion
Smith v. State
Court of Appeals of Maryland
Decided November 28, 1986No. 140, September Term, 1985PublishedCited by 37 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MURPHY, Chief Judge.
This case involves a challenge to the admissibility of testimony at a criminal sentencing hearing pertaining to the defendant’s alleged participation in an uncharged offense unrelated to the crime for which he was then being sentenced.
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The record reveals that Minnie Burt spent the evening of June 10, 1984, in her former place of employment, a lounge located in Fairmount Heights, Maryland. She left the lounge intending to get a cab to her home in the District of Columbia. A man, whom Burt later identified as Jerry Oscar Smith, offered to drive her to the cab stand and she…
2Cases cited58 opinions
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3Cited by37 opinions
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