Legal Opinion
Gilliam v. State
Court of Appeals of Maryland
Decided September 25, 1990No. 150, September Term, 1989PublishedCited by 35 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
CHASANOW, Judge.
During the early morning hours of Saturday, December 3, 1988, the body of Christine Doerfler (Ms. Doerfler) was found slumped over the wheel of her Nissan Sentra automobile. She had been shot in the back of the head with a sawed-off shotgun. The following facts were adduced at the trial of Appellant, Tyrone D. Gilliam,' Jr. (Gilliam).
On Thursday afternoon, December 1, Gilliam and the Drummond brothers, Kelvin LeGrant Drummond (Kelvin) and Delano Anthony Drummond (Tony), sat in a friend’s apartment and got high on cocaine, marijuana, and alcohol. With them they had a sawed-off…
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