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- Title: Presley v. Maryland
- Author : September Term, 1967 Court of Special Appeals of Maryland No. 314
- Release Date : January 26, 1969
- Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 58 KB
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The appellant, James Leslie Presley, was first convicted of rape upon an eleven-year-old girl by a jury in the Criminal Court of Baltimore and sentenced to death in April 1960. The judgment of conviction was affirmed by the Court of Appeals of Maryland in Presley v. State, 224 Md. 550. Thereafter, Presley was granted a new trial as a result of habeas corpus proceedings filed in the United States District Court for the District of Maryland. See Presley v. Pepersack, 228 F. Supp. 95 (1964). The second trial was conducted in the Circuit Court for Harford County and, again, Presley was found guilty of rape by a jury and this time sentenced to life imprisonment. While his appeal was pending, Schowgurow v. State, 240 Md. 121 was decided and on the basis of that decision he elected to seek and was granted a new trial which was held in the Circuit Court for Caroline County and, again, he was convicted by a jury of rape and sentenced to life imprisonment.