Legal Opinion

Ruffin v. State

Court of Appeals of Maryland

Decided August 31, 2006No. 86, September Term, 2005Published

1Opinion of the Court

906 A.2d 360 (2006)

394 Md. 355

James Allen RUFFIN

v.

STATE of Maryland.

No. 86, September Term, 2005.

Court of Appeals of Maryland.

August 31, 2006.

Julia Doyle Bernhardt, Asst. Public Defender (Nancy S. Forester, Public Defender, Baltimore), on brief, for Petitioner.

Sarah Page Pritzlaff, Asst. Atty. General (J. Joseph Curran, Jr., Atty. General, Baltimore), for Respondent.

Argued before BELL, C.J., WILNER, CATHELL, HARRELL, BATTAGLIA, GREENE and JOHN C. ELDRIDGE (Retired, Specially Assigned), JJ.

ELDRIDGE, Judge.

In every criminal jury trial, the trial court is required to instruct the jury that the…

2Cases cited46 opinions

  1. Jackson v. VirginiaSupreme Court of the United States · 1979
  2. In Re WINSHIPSupreme Court of the United States · 1970
  3. Allen v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1896
  4. Victor v. NebraskaSupreme Court of the United States · 1994
  5. Cage v. LouisianaSupreme Court of the United States · 1990

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