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STATE v. HAWKINS

No. 82, September Term, 1991.

326 Md. 270 (1992)

604 A.2d 489

STATE OF MARYLAND v. DANA ASHLEY HAWKINS.

Court of Appeals of Maryland.

April 13, 1992.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Annabelle L. Lisic, Asst. Atty. Gen., (J. Joseph Curran, Jr., Atty. Gen., both on brief), for petitioner.

Michael R. Braudes, Asst. Public Defender (Stephen E. Harris, Public Defender, both on brief), Baltimore, for respondent.

Argued before MURPHY, C.J., and ELDRIDGE, RODOWSKY, McAULIFFE, CHASANOW and KARWACKI, JJ., and CHARLES E. ORTH, Jr., Judge of the Court of Appeals (Retired), Specially Assigned.

CHARLES E. ORTH, Jr., Judge, Specially Assigned.

This appeal is about murder, and accessory after the fact, and instructions to the jury, and the common law, and the word "polygraph," which, when it crops up in a criminal prosecution, raises a red flag.

The case is briefly stated. A jury in the Circuit Court for Harford County found that Dana Ashley Hawkins was a principal in the murder of Dell Rose Noble, and that the murder was in the first degree as committed...

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