Legal Opinion
Burko v. State
Court of Special Appeals of Maryland
Decided January 7, 1974No. 278, September Term, 1973PublishedCited by 25 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtGilbert, J.
At 7:30 P.M. on March 9, 1972, Detective Lieutenant Donald A. Robertson died as the direet result of a gunshot wound to the head. The fatal shot had been fired from the inside of the trunk of an automobile then parked in the garage of the Montgomery County Police Department. Other police officers fired approximately thirty-five (35) bullets Into the body of the gunman who was secreted in the trunk, hut there was evidence that Lieutenant Robertson's slayer died from a self-inflicted bullet wound to the temple region susd not from the police fusillade.
The appellant, Jeffrey Aaron Burko, who at…
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