Legal Opinion
Myers v. State
Court of Special Appeals of Maryland
Decided April 4, 1984No. 764, September Term, 1983PublishedCited by 16 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
GILBERT, Chief Judge.
Robert Lee Myers (Myers), the appellant, was convicted by a jury in the Circuit Court for Carroll County (Burns, J.) of murder in the first degree. Myers was sentenced to imprisonment for the balance of his natural life.
Apparently believing there is a corollary between the length of the trial and the number of issues to be raised on appeal, Myers assails the judgment of the circuit court in seventeen different ways. After setting forth the facts from which the judgment grew, we shall discuss each of Myers’s many contentions in the order raised by him.
The Facts
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2Cases cited53 opinions
- Witherspoon v. IllinoisSupreme Court of the United States · 1968
- Massiah v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1964
- Kirby v. IllinoisSupreme Court of the United States · 1972
- Bumper v. North CarolinaSupreme Court of the United States · 1968
- Brewer v. WilliamsSupreme Court of the United States · 1977
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3Cited by16 opinions
- Grandison v. StateCourt of Appeals of Maryland · 1986
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- Martinez v. StateCourt of Appeals of Maryland · 1987
- State v. CookCourt of Appeals of Maryland · 1995
- State v. RivenbarkCourt of Appeals of Maryland · 1987
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