Legal Opinion
State v. Hawkins
Court of Appeals of Maryland
Decided April 13, 1992No. 82, September Term, 1991PublishedCited by 112 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
CHARLES E. ORTH, Jr., Judge, Specially Assigned.
This appeal is about murder, and accessory after the fact, and instructions to the jury, and the common law, and the word “polygraph,” which, when it crops up in a criminal prosecution, raises a red flag.
The case is briefly stated. A jury in the Circuit Court for Harford County found that Dana Ashley Hawkins was a principal in the murder of Dell Rose Noble, and that the murder was in the first degree as committed in the perpetration of a felony. It also found that she was an accessory after the fact to that murder. She was sentenced to a term of…
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