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CURRAN v. PRICE

No. 76, September Term, 1993.

334 Md. 149 (1994)

638 A.2d 93

J. JOSEPH CURRAN, JR. v. RONALD W. PRICE.

Court of Appeals of Maryland.

March 14, 1994.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

J. Joseph Curran, Jr., Atty. Gen. (Ralph S. Tyler, Deputy Atty. Gen., and Mary O'Malley Lunden, Asst. Atty. Gen., all on brief), Baltimore, for petitioner.

Timothy Umbreit (Umbreit & Resnick on brief), Baltimore, for respondent.

Steven F. Reich (David B. Isbell, Leslye A. Herrmann, Covington & Burling, all on brief), Washington, D.C., and Susan Goering, American Civ. Liberties Union Foundation of Maryland, on brief), Baltimore, amicus curiae.

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

MURPHY, Chief Judge.

This case focuses upon Maryland's so-called "Son of Sam" statute, Maryland Code (1957, 1992 Repl.Vol. and 1993 Cum. Supp.) Art. 27, § 764, which was enacted to prevent criminals from profiting from their own crimes through "notoriety of crimes contracts," defined in § 764(a)(5) as a contract with respect to

"(i) The reenactment of a crime by way of a movie, book, magazine article, tape recording, phonograph record, radio or...

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