NANCE v. STATE

No. 142, September Term, 1992.

331 Md. 549 (1993)

629 A.2d 633

RONALD NANCE AND KEVIN HARDY v. STATE OF MARYLAND.

Court of Appeals of Maryland.

August 23, 1993.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Melissa M. Moore, Asst. Public Defender (Stephen E. Harris, Public Defender, of Baltimore, on brief), for petitioner.

Annabelle L. Lisic, Asst. Atty. Gen. (J. Joseph Curran, Jr., Atty. Gen., Baltimore, on brief), for respondent.

Argued before MURPHY, C.J., and ELDRIDGE, RODOWSKY, McAULIFFE, CHASANOW, KARWACKI and ROBERT M. BELL, JJ.


McAULIFFE, Judge.

This case presents the classic evidentiary problem of the turncoat witness. We must determine the admissibility, as substantive evidence, of witnesses' out-of-court identifications, signed statements to police, and grand jury testimony, all of which the witnesses largely repudiated at trial.

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