Legal Opinion
Booth v. State
Court of Appeals of Maryland
Decided June 15, 1987No. 151, September Term, 1984PublishedCited by 68 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
RODOWSKY, Judge.
We shall affirm the judgments of conviction and death sentence in this case for the reasons set forth below. Of the nineteen issues raised on appeal only issues eight through ten present questions of any novelty. These deal with the right of allocution conferred by a Maryland Rule of Procedure which was made applicable to capital cases as of July 1, 1984.
Appellant, John “Ace” Booth (Booth), and his friend, Willie “Sweetsie” Reid (Reid), in order to obtain money for heroin, on May 18, 1983, robbed and murdered an elderly couple in the victims’ home. The victims were Irvin…
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3Cited by68 opinions
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