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LANGLEY v. STATE

[No. 10, September Term, 1977.]

281 Md. 337 (1977)

378 A.2d 1338

LAWRENCE LANGLEY v. STATE OF MARYLAND

Court of Appeals of Maryland.

Decided November 2, 1977.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Geraldine Kenney Sweeney, Assistant Public Defender, with whom was Alan H. Murrell, Public Defender, on the brief, for appellant.

W. Timothy Finan, Assistant Attorney General, with whom were Francis B. Burch, Attorney General, Clarence W. Sharp and Gilbert Rosenthal, Assistant Attorneys General, on the brief, for appellee.

The cause was argued before MURPHY, C.J., and SINGLEY, SMITH, DIGGES, LEVINE, ELDRIDGE and ORTH, JJ.

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

At the trial of this criminal case before a jury in the Circuit Court for Prince George's County a trial judge refused to ask the following question on voir dire:

"Is there anyone here who would give more credit to the testimony of a police officer over that of a civilian, merely because of his status as a police officer?"

The Court of Special Appeals affirmed the conviction in an unreported opinion...

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