Grandison v. State

In 1983, Anthony Grandison, appellant, for a fee of $9,000, hired his friend, Vernon Lee Evans, to murder Scott Piechow-icz and his wife, Cheryl Pieehowicz, to prevent them from testifying against him in a then-pending criminal trial in the United States District Court for the District of Maryland. Grandison v. State, 305 Md. 685, 697, 506 A.2d 580, cert. denied, 479 U.S. 873, 107 S.Ct. 38, 93 L.Ed.2d 174, and reh’g denied, 479 U.S. 1001, 107 S.Ct. 611, 93 L.Ed.2d 609 (1986). Pursuant to their unlawful agreement, Evans succeeded in murdering Scott Pieehowicz but failed in killing Cheryl…