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CHAMBERS v. STATE

No. 119, September Term, 1993.

337 Md. 44 (1994)

RYMUNDO ORYLEY VERNON CHAMBERS A/K/A VICTOR VALE v. STATE OF MARYLAND.

Court of Appeals of Maryland.

December 19, 1994.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Nancy S. Forster, Asst. Public Defender, (Stephen E. Harris, Public Defender, on brief), Baltimore, for petitioner.

Mary Ann Ince, Asst. Atty. Gen. (J. Joseph Curran, Jr., Atty. Gen., on brief), Baltimore, for respondent.

Argued before MURPHY, C.J., and ELDRIDGE, RODOWSKY, CHASANOW, KARWACKI, BELL and RAKER, JJ.

RAKER, Judge.

We granted certiorari to consider whether Maryland Rule 4-327(f)1 requires a trial court, upon request, to instruct the jury that it may recommend that the court show mercy to a criminal defendant. We hold that it does not.

The petitioner, Rymundo Oryley Vernon Chambers, a/k/a Victor Vale, was convicted by a jury in the Circuit Court for Worcester County of possession of cocaine and possession of cocaine with intent...

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