Legal Opinion
Bowers v. State
Court of Appeals of Maryland
Decided May 7, 1986No. 122, September Term, 1984PublishedCited by 45 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
*123SMITH, Judge.
Marselle Jerome Bowers was convicted by a Charles County jury of murder in the first degree and sentenced to death. In Bowers v. State, 298 Md. 115, 468 A.2d 101 (1983), we affirmed the conviction but vacated the death sentence because the jury failed to find a mitigating factor which the State at trial had conceded the evidence showed. Accordingly, we remanded the case for a new sentencing proceeding.
A Charles County jury has again sentenced Bowers to death. The case reaches us pursuant to the provisions of Maryland Code (1957, 1982 RepLVol.) Art. 27, § 414 stating that whenever…
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