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MANGUM v. STATE

No. 82, Sept. Term, 1995.

676 A.2d 80 (1996)

342 Md. 392

Steven MANGUM v. STATE of Maryland.

Court of Appeals of Maryland.

May 15, 1996.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Submitted on brief by Martha Weisheit, Assistant Public Defender (Stephen E. Harris, Public Defender, on brief), Baltimore, for Petitioner.

Rachel Marblestone Kamins, Assistant Attorney General (J. Joseph Curran, Jr., Attorney General, on brief), Baltimore, for Respondent.

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

RAKER, Judge.

In this case, we are asked to decide whether the State must introduce direct evidence of a recovered firearm's operability to prove a violation of Maryland Code (1957, 1992 Repl.Vol., 1995 Cum.Supp.) Article 27, § 36B(b).1 We shall hold that direct evidence is not required, and that operability of a firearm can be proved solely by circumstantial evidence.

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