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HOPPER v. STATE

No. 1361, September Term, 1984.

64 Md. App. 97 (1985)

494 A.2d 708

GARY LEE HOPPER v. STATE OF MARYLAND.

Court of Special Appeals of Maryland.

July 5, 1985.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mark Colvin, Asst. Public Defender, Baltimore (Alan H. Murrell, Public Defender, Baltimore, on brief), for appellant.

Jillyn K. Schulze, Asst. Atty. Gen., Baltimore (Stephen H. Sachs, Atty. Gen., Baltimore, Andrew L. Sonner, State's Atty. for Montgomery County and Robert Dean, Asst. State's Atty. for Montgomery County, Rockville, on brief), for appellee.

Argued before WEANT, GARRITY and ADKINS, JJ.

GARRITY, Judge.

"The partiality of a witness is subject to exploration at trial, and is always relevant as discrediting the witness and affecting the weight of his testimony."1

In this matter we are asked to determine whether the trial judge abused his discretion in curtailing the cross-examination of a victim as to his pecuniary interest to falsify testimony in order to keep an award of $2,698.19 he had received from the Criminal...

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