Legal Opinion
Franklin v. State
Court of Special Appeals of Maryland
Decided December 1, 1976No. 1181, September Term, 1975PublishedCited by 1 opinion
1Opinion of the CourtSweeney, J.
On September 8, 1975, Stephen Franklin was convicted of attempted robbery with a dangerous and deadly weapon by the Honorable Paul A. Dorf, sitting without a jury in the Criminal Court of Baltimore. He was sentenced to 20 years incarceration.
Franklin now attacks his conviction, asserting that his constitutional rights were infringed because the trial court failed to make a preliminary or subsequent determination of the voluntariness or trustworthiness of certain extrajudicial statements attributed to him, which were introduced by the State for impeachment purposes. Franklin also alleges that…
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