Legal Opinion
Bellard v. State
Court of Appeals of Maryland
Decided March 31, 2017No. 72/16PublishedCited by 54 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtWatts, J.
In 2013, Maryland repealed the death penalty. To effectuate the repeal of the death penalty and provisions related to the death penalty, the General Assembly repealed several statutes, and repealed and reenacted, with amendments, other statutes, including Md. Code Ann., Crim. Law (2002, 2012 Repl. Vol.) (“CR (2012)”) § 2-304(a), which previously governed the procedure for sentencing a defendant who was convicted of first-degree murder to life imprisonment or life imprisonment without the possibility of parole, where either the State did not give notice of intent to seek the death penalty, or…
2Cases cited22 opinions
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- Woodson v. North CarolinaSupreme Court of the United States · 1976
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