Evans V. State

In April of 1983, Vernon Lee Evans, Jr., appellant, was hired by Anthony Grandison to kill David Scott Piechowicz and his wife, Cheryl, who had been subpoenaed to testify against Grandison in the United States District Court for the District of Maryland in a narcotics case. Evans was promised $9,000 for committing the murders. With the help of his former girlfriend, Charlene Sparrow, Evans rented a room for two nights, April 27 and 28, 1983, in the Warren House Hotel in Baltimore County where both Mr. and Mrs. Piechowicz were employed.