Legal Opinion
Goldsborough v. State
Court of Special Appeals of Maryland
Decided June 24, 1971No. 544, September Term, 1970PublishedCited by 21 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtMurphy, C. J.
George J. Goldsborough, Jr., of the Maryland Bar, appeals from an order of Judge Harry E. Clark of the Circuit Court for Talbot County summarily finding him in direct criminal contempt of court for having, in the course of an opening statement to the jury in the criminal case of State v. Cole made reference to an earlier acquittal of a co-defendant by another jury in the same jurisdiction in the companion case of State v. Schwaninger, which involved identical facts.
The pertinent background facts as disclosed by the record are these: As a result of an undercover investigation by the Maryland…
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