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BALLARD v. STATE

No. 55, September Term, 1993.

333 Md. 567 (1994)

636 A.2d 474

ROBERT LESLIE BALLARD, JR. v. STATE OF MARYLAND.

Court of Appeals of Maryland.

January 31, 1994.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Victoria S. Lansburgh, Asst. Public Defender (Stephen E. Harris, Public Defender, both on brief), Baltimore, for petitioner.

Diane E. Keller, Asst. Atty. Gen. (J. Joseph Curran, Jr., Atty. Gen., of Maryland, both on brief), Baltimore, for respondent.

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

RODOWSKY, Judge.

The issue here involves the rule requiring corroboration of the confession of an accused by some independent evidence of the corpus delicti. We return to this well plowed ground because of the contentions of the petitioner, Robert Leslie Ballard, Jr. (Ballard), who stands convicted, inter alia, of felony murder in an attempted robbery. Ballard contends that corroboration of the corpus delicti in this case requires independent...

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