Brady v. State

Murphy, C. J., and Smith and Rodowsky, JJ., dissent. Smith, J., filed a dissenting opinion at page 270 infra, in which Murphy, C. J., and Rodowsky, J., concur.

This is the fourth time Willie Frederick Brady has asked an appellate court in the State of Maryland to determine whether he was denied his constitutional right to a speedy trial. The first time he asked, the Court of Special Appeals, in an unreported per curiam opinion, Willie Frederick Brady *263v. State of Maryland, No. 1226, September Term, 1978, filed June 11,1979, held that because the defendant was unaware of the pending charge for…