Legal Opinion
Wiggins v. State
Court of Appeals of Maryland
Decided February 10, 1999No. 121, Sept. Term, 1997PublishedCited by 53 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
WILNER, Judge.
In 1989, appellant was convicted by Judge J. William Hinkel, sitting in the Circuit Court for Baltimore County, of the *584robbery and first degree murder of Florence Lacs and two counts of theft. A jury summoned to determine the appropriate punishment for the murder found that appellant should be put to death, and, upon that verdict, Judge Hinkel imposed a sentence of death. We affirmed that judgment in Wiggins v. State, 324 Md. 551, 597 A.2d 1359 (1991), cert. denied, 503 U.S. 1007, 112 S.Ct. 1765, 118 L.Ed.2d 427 (1992), rejecting appellant’s claims that the evidence was legally…
2Cases cited29 opinions
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- Hendricks v. CalderonCourt of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit · 1995
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3Cited by53 opinions
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- Unger v. StateCourt of Appeals of Maryland · 2012
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