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NEAM v. STATE

No. 278, September Term, 1971.

14 Md. App. 180 (1972)

286 A.2d 540

JAMES MICHAEL NEAM, JR. v. STATE OF MARYLAND.

Court of Special Appeals of Maryland.

Decided January 28, 1972.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Frank M. Kratovil, with whom was Daniel D. McFarland on the brief, for appellant.

Gilbert Rosenthal, Assistant Attorney General, with whom were Francis B. Burch, Attorney General, Arthur A. Marshall, Jr., State's Attorney for Prince George's County, and Jayson L. Amster, Assistant State's Attorney for Prince George's County, on the brief, for appellee.

The cause was argued before ANDERSON, THOMPSON and MOYLAN, JJ.

MOYLAN, J., delivered the opinion of the Court.

Recognizing at once its utility and its hazards, the law permits evidence of prior crimes to be used to impeach the credibility of even a defendant-witness but austerely limits such prior crimes to actual convictions and, indeed, to convictions consonant with the Sixth Amendment's right to counsel.1 The case at bar reveals the hazards at their most virulent.

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