GUESFEIRD v. STATE

No. 133 September Term, 1983.

300 Md. 653 (1984)

480 A.2d 800

ROBERT GUESFEIRD v. STATE OF MARYLAND.

Court of Appeals of Maryland.

August 24, 1984.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Argued by Gary S. Offutt, Asst. Public Defender, Baltimore (Alan H. Murrell, Public Defender, Baltimore, on the brief), for appellant.

Argued by Zvi Greismann and Carmina Szunyog, Asst. Attys. Gen., Baltimore (Stephen H. Sachs, Atty. Gen., Baltimore, on the brief), for appellee.

Argued before MURPHY, C.J., and SMITH, ELDRIDGE, COLE, DAVIDSON, RODOWSKY and COUCH, JJ.


COUCH, Judge.

In the instant appeal, appellant presents three issues. First, whether an unsolicited and inadvertent reference by the complaining witness to taking a lie detector test is ground for reversible error where the trial court denied appellant's motion for a mistrial and gave a curative instruction. Secondly, whether appellant has a legitimate right to make a tactical decision regarding curative instructions being given in his favor, and thus, whether the...

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