Legal Opinion
Mastromarino v. Director of Patuxent Institution
Court of Appeals of Maryland
Decided December 12, 1966No. [No. 326, September Term, 1966.]PublishedCited by 17 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtHammond, C. J.
Barnes, J., concurs in the result. Concurring opinion at page 651, infra.
Mastromarino, the appellant, was determined to be a defective delinquent by a jury which had been required to swear to a belief in God as a prerequisite to service. While his application for leave to appeal was pending, we decided Schowgurow v. State, 240 Md. 121, in which at the suit of a Buddhist who did not believe in God, we held the provisions of the Maryland Constitution that require a demonstration of a belief in God as a qualification for service as a grand or petit juror to be invalid as in conflict with the…
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3Cited by17 opinions
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