Williams v. State

BELL, Chief Judge.

The dispositive issue in the case sub judiee is whether the defendant is entitled to a new trial as a result of a juror’s nondisclosure, during voir dire, of the fact that a member of that juror’s family was employed as a secretary in the State’s Attorney’s Office (“SAO”) that was prosecuting the defendant and when the relationship was not discovered until after the trial had been completed. This issue is one of first impression for this Court. A similar, but certainly not identical, issue has *102been considered by the Court of special Appeals, however. It was first addressed…