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LAWSON v. STATE

No. 12, September Term, 2005.

886 A.2d 876 (2005)

389 Md. 570

Joseph LAWSON v. STATE of Maryland.

Court of Appeals of Maryland.

November 28, 2005.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Eve L. Brensike, Assigned Pro Bono Counsel, University of Michigan Law School, Ann Arbor, Nancy S. Forster, Public Defender, Michael R. Braudes, Asst. Public Defender, all on brief, for petitioner.

Celia Anderson Davis, Asst. Atty. Gen. (J. Joseph Curran, Jr., Atty. Gen., on brief), for respondent.

Russell P. Butler, Tracy Delaney, Upper Marlboro, Thomas P. Steindler, Mark H. Churchill, Eric S. Johnson, McDermott, Will & Emery, LLP, Washington, DC, Amicus Curiae.

Argued before BELL, C.J., RAKER, WILNER, CATHELL, HARRELL, BATTAGLIA and GREENE, JJ.

CATHELL, J.

On July 8, 2003, Joseph Lawson, petitioner, was convicted by a jury in the Circuit Court for Prince George's County on two counts of second-degree rape, two counts of attempted second-degree rape, and two counts of second-degree assault. He was thereafter sentenced by the trial court to fourteen years in prison. Petitioner appealed the convictions to the Court of Special Appeals challenging, among other things, the admissibility of a social worker's testimony...

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