Harris v. State

Petitioner, Lamar Cornelius Harris, has been charged with first degree murder and conspiracy to commit first degree murder emanating from the death of a correctional officer on July 25, 2006, at the Maryland House of Corrections, in Jessup, Maryland.1 To date, court proceedings have stalled in *305the preliminary stages due to disagreement about the propriety of the trial judge’s pretrial rulings ordering discovery of certain records and testimony pertaining to Harris’s court-ordered competency evaluation and subsequent in-patient treatment at Clifton T. Perkins Hospital Center (“Perkins…