Legal Opinion
Coleman v. State
Court of Special Appeals of Maryland
Decided June 16, 1981No. 835, September Term, 1980PublishedCited by 11 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtMelvin, J.
The State has now twice obtained a conviction of second degree murder against the appellant, Russell Norman Coleman. The first such conviction was overturned by this Court in Coleman v. State, C.S.A. No. 1334, S.T. ’78 (unreported per curiam, filed July 5, 1979) where, having concluded that the trial court had erred in its instructions to the jury, we reversed and remanded the case for a new trial. Upon retrial by a jury in the Circuit Court for Anne Arundel County, appellant was once again convicted of second degree murder and sentenced to a term of thirty years. From this conviction,…
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