Legal Opinion
Sanders v. State
Court of Special Appeals of Maryland
Decided January 10, 1984No. 337, September Term, 1983PublishedCited by 12 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
ALPERT, Judge.
“The best hid schemes o’mice and men,
So oft go awry.” 1
In this case a carefully calculated murder plot would not have gone awry were it not for the chance arrest of Robert Smithson for shoplifting on March 18, 1982. Apparently trying to avoid culpability for that charge, Smithson voluntarily informed the Montgomery County police that Douglas Lornell Sanders, appellant, had offered him a contract to murder an Internal Revenue Service (IRS) agent. Raymond R. Petronchak, an IRS criminal inspector, was summoned to investigate.
Smithson related that on March 6, 1982, appellant had…
2Cases cited24 opinions
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- Hines v. DavidowitzSupreme Court of the United States · 1941
- Maryland v. LouisianaSupreme Court of the United States · 1981
- United States v. CaceresSupreme Court of the United States · 1979
- Curtis v. StateCourt of Appeals of Maryland · 1979
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3Cited by12 opinions
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- Petric v. StateCourt of Special Appeals of Maryland · 1986
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