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LAWRENCE v. STATE

No. 1583, September Term, 1980.

51 Md. App. 575 (1982)

444 A.2d 478

JAMES IVORY LAWRENCE v. STATE OF MARYLAND.

Court of Special Appeals of Maryland.

Decided May 7, 1982.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

George E. Burns, Jr., Assistant Public Defender, with whom was Alan H. Murrell, Public Defender, on the brief, for appellant.

Patricia E. McDonald, Assistant Attorney General, with whom was Stephen H. Sachs, Attorney General, Sandra A. O'Connor, State's Attorney for Baltimore County, and Robert Lazzaro, Assistant State's Attorney for Baltimore County, on the brief, for appellee.

The cause was argued before MORTON, MOORE and MASON, JJ.

MASON, J., delivered the opinion of the Court.

In this case we are asked to decide whether the use of peremptory strikes to eliminate all blacks from the jury was a violation of the Federal and Maryland Constitutions.

James Ivory Lawrence, appellant, was convicted by a jury in the Circuit Court for Baltimore County of first degree murder and the use of a handgun in the commission of a crime of violence. He was...

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