Thornton v. State

Petitioner, Tamere Hassan Thornton, seeks review of a Court of Special Appeals’s judgment affirming his conviction for murder in the second degree. In his petition for a writ of certiorari, which we granted, Thornton essentially presents two questions for our review:

1. Did the intermediate appellate court and the trial judge correctly interpret and apply the mens rea element of second-degree murder of the intent-to-inflict-grievous-bodily-harm variety?

2. Did the intermediate appellate court and the trial court correctly interpret and apply the law of imperfect self-defense?

Thornton v. State,…