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THANOS v. STATE

No. 45, September Term, 1992.

330 Md. 77 (1993)

622 A.2d 727

JOHN FREDERICK THANOS v. STATE OF MARYLAND.

Court of Appeals of Maryland.

April 5, 1993.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Michael R. Braudes, Asst. Public Defender (Stephen E. Harris, Public Defender and Nancy M. Cohen, Asst. Public Defender, Baltimore), all on brief, for appellant.

Gwynn X. Kinsey, Jr., Asst. Atty. Gen. (J. Joseph Curran, Jr., Atty. Gen., and Ann N. Bosse, Asst. Atty. Gen., Baltimore), all on brief, for appellee.

Argued before MURPHY, C.J., and ELDRIDGE, RODOWSKY, McAULIFFE, CHASANOW, KARWACKI and ROBERT M. BELL, JJ.

MURPHY, Chief Judge.

This direct appeal in a capital murder case raises a number of issues surrounding the trial, sentencing proceeding, and death sentence imposed upon appellant John Frederick Thanos.

I

On August 31, 1990, eighteen-year-old Gregory Allen Taylor, Jr. picked up Thanos, who was hitchhiking, in a rural area of Worcester County. Inside Taylor's car, Thanos removed a sawed-off rifle from his duffle bag and ordered Taylor to drive to a...

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