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SANGSTER v. STATE

No. 70, September Term, 1987.

312 Md. 560 (1988)

541 A.2d 637

SIGISMUND NATHANIEL SANGSTER v. STATE OF MARYLAND.

Court of Appeals of Maryland.

May 27, 1988.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Arthur A. DeLano, Jr., Asst. Public Defender (Alan H. Murrell, Public Defender, on the brief), Baltimore, for appellant.

Richard B. Rosenblatt, Asst. Atty. Gen. (J. Joseph Curran, Jr., Atty. Gen., on the brief), Baltimore, for appellee.

Argued before MURPHY, C.J., and ELDRIDGE, COLE, RODOWSKY, McAULIFFE, ADKINS and BLACKWELL, JJ.

RODOWSKY, Judge.

This case involves the procedure by which a trial court determines the competency of an accused to stand trial. The issue is whether a trial judge may, over objection by the accused, consider in written report form the opinions as to the accused's competency expressed by psychiatrists who examined the accused pursuant to Md.Code (1982, 1987 Cum.Supp.), § 12-104 of the Health-General Article (H-G). At the pretrial competency hearing in the instant...

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