Morgan v. State

DAVIS, Judge.

Appellant Leonard Jovan Morgan was convicted by a jury on August 13, 1997, in the Circuit Court for Prince George’s County, of second degree murder. He appealed his conviction and we reversed and remanded the case for retrial in an unreported opinion, Morgan v. State, No. 1693, September Term 1997 (filed July 20, 1998). The reversal was based on the trial court’s erroneous denial of appellant’s motion to suppress his statements to the police.

Appellant was retried and, on September 1, 1999, he was again convicted of second degree murder and was sentenced to thirty years…