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EVANS v. STATE

Nos. 18, September Term, 2004, 3, September Term, 2005.

886 A.2d 562 (2005)

389 Md. 456

Vernon EVANS, Jr. v. STATE of Maryland.

Court of Appeals of Maryland.

Reconsideration Denied December 13, 2005.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

A. Stephen Hut, Jr. (Todd C. Zubler, Kalea Seitz Clark, Shoshana L. Gillers, Kayla C. Stahlman, Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale & Dorr LLP, Washington, DC, Jeffrey B. O'Toole, Julie Sippel Dietrich, O'Toole, Rothwell, Nassau & Steinbach, Washington, DC, Catherine M. Grosso, of counsel, Washington, DC, all on brief), for appellant.

Annabelle L. Lisic, Asst. Atty. Gen. (J. Joseph Curran, Jr., Atty. Gen., on brief), for appellee.

William J. Murphy, John J. Connolly, Murphy & Schaffer, LLC, Baltimore, amicus curiae.

John J. Gibbons, Lawrence S. Lustberg, Claudia Van Wyk, Gitanjali S. Gutierrez, Jonathan Hafetz, Megan Lewis, Gibbons, Del Deo, Dolan, Griffinger & Vecchione, P.C., Newark, NJ, Angela Ciccolo, Interim Gen. Counsel, Victor L. Goode, Asst. Gen. Counsel, NAACP, Inc., Baltimore, all of counsel.

Argued before BELL, C.J., RAKER, WILNER, HARRELL, BATTAGLIA, GREENE and LAWRENCE F. RODOWSKY, (Retired, Specially Assigned), JJ.

WILNER, J.

On April 28, 1983, appellant, Vernon Evans, for a fee of $9,000 to be paid by his friend, Anthony Grandison, murdered David Piechowicz and Susan Kennedy, deliberately, willfully, with premeditation, in cold blood. Grandison wanted Piechowicz and his wife, Cheryl, killed to prevent them from testifying against Grandison in a pending drug case in Federal Court, and he hired Evans to do the job.

The Piechowiczes were employed at the Warren House Motel...

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