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THANOS v. STATE

No. 66, September Term, 1992.

330 Md. 576 (1993)

625 A.2d 932

JOHN FREDERICK THANOS v. STATE OF MARYLAND.

Court of Appeals of Maryland.

June 7, 1993.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

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

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

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

MURPHY, Chief Judge.

This case is the second of two direct appeals by appellant, John Frederick Thanos, who was twice convicted of capital murder and twice sentenced to die.

I

On September 2, 1990, Thanos entered the "minimart" of a Big Red gasoline station in Essex, Maryland. There, he persuaded the station employees, sixteen-year-old Billy Winebrenner and fourteen-year-old Melody Pistorio, to accept his gold watch in exchange for ten dollars worth...

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