Legal Opinion
Thomas v. State
Court of Special Appeals of Maryland
Decided December 7, 1981No. 243, September Term, 1981PublishedCited by 15 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtBishop, J.
Randolph Thomas, the appellant, was indicted for first-degree premeditated murder, felony murder, armed robbery, use of a handgun in the commission of a violent crime, and various lesser included offenses, related to an incident of February 11, 1980. He was tried by a jury in the Criminal Court of Baltimore on September 4-16, 1980.
The jury convicted Thomas of both felony murder and armed robbery. The trial judge merged the armed robbery conviction into the felony murder conviction and imposed a sentence of life imprisonment, suspending all except fifty years of that term.
On appeal Thomas asks:
2Cases cited30 opinions
- Marron v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1927
- Dennis v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1966
- Steele v. United States No. 1Supreme Court of the United States · 1925
- Wilhelm v. StateCourt of Appeals of Maryland · 1974
- Stevenson v. StateCourt of Appeals of Maryland · 1980
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3Cited by15 opinions
- White v. StateCourt of Appeals of Maryland · 1984
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- Jones v. StateCourt of Appeals of Maryland · 1983
- Clark v. StateCourt of Special Appeals of Maryland · 2001
- Harris v. United StatesDistrict of Columbia Court of Appeals · 1992
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