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DIGGS AND RAMSEY v. STATE

Nos. 110, 147, September Term, 2008.

973 A.2d 796 (2009)

409 Md. 260

Steven DIGGS v. STATE of Maryland. Damon Lamar Ramsey v. State of Maryland.

Court of Appeals of Maryland.

June 12, 2009.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Claudia A. Cortese, Asst. Public Defender (Nancy S. Forster, Public Defender, Baltimore), on brief, for appellant.

Jessica V. Carter, Asst. Atty. Gen. (Douglas F. Gansler, Atty. Gen. of Maryland, Baltimore), on brief, for appellee.

Argued before BELL, C.J., HARRELL, BATTAGLIA, GREENE, MURPHY, ADKINS and BARBERA, JJ.

BATTAGLIA, J.

In this opinion, we are called upon to determine whether Steven Diggs and Damon Lamar Ramsey, Appellants, are entitled to new trials, because the judge who presided over their original proceedings acted like a co-prosecutor. It is clear in both of these cases that neither of the prosecutors presented the cases well, nor did the defense attorneys adequately represent their clients. Nevertheless, it is the presiding judge who is the subject of the questions...

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