Lodowski v. State

ORTH, Judge.

In Lodowski v. State, 302 Md. 691, 490 A.2d 1228 (1985) (Lodowski I), we reversed the judgments of the Circuit Court for Charles County and remanded the case for a new trial. The Supreme Court of the United States vacated our judgment and remanded the case to us for further consideration in light of Moran v. Burbine, 475 U.S.-, 106 S.Ct. 1135, 89 L.Ed.2d 410 (1986). Maryland v. Lodowski, — U.S.-, 106 S.Ct. 1452, 89 L.Ed.2d 711 (1986). We now further consider the case as directed.

I

Lodowski had been convicted as a principal in the first degree of the murder in the first degree of…