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Rony Galicia v. Maryland
Paid petition · Court of Appeals of Maryland, No. 5, September Term, 2021 · judgment June 27, 2022
Before the decision, well below the 4.1% base rate, with no standout signals pointing toward a grant.
Questions presented
This case presents the following questions:
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Whether the Sixth Amendment is violated by a trial court’s denial of cross-examination into an accomplice’s confession, where the prosecution introduced the confession, where the confession implicates other co-conspirators, and where the inquiry would fairly rebut the inference that the defendant participated in a double murder?
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There is a split among the courts of appeals and several states on the following question: Whether appellate courts should review violations of the Confrontation Clause de novo or for abuse of discretion?
Counsel of record
For petitioner
Stephen Bennett Mercer
RaquinMercer LLC
For respondent
Daniel John Jawor
Office of the Attorney General of Maryland
Case
Conference history
Distributed for 1 conference
Proceedings
- Dec 05 2022Petition DENIED.
- Nov 15 2022DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 12/2/2022.
- Nov 14 2022Waiver of right of respondent Maryland to respond filed.
- Nov 07 2022Petition for a writ of certiorari filed. (Response due December 12, 2022)