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TESTERMAN v. STATE

No. 382, September Term, 1984.

61 Md. App. 257 (1985)

486 A.2d 233

HERBERT MACK TESTERMAN, SR. v. STATE OF MARYLAND.

Court of Special Appeals of Maryland.

January 9, 1985.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Isaac S. Kershner, Assigned Public Defender, Baltimore (Alan H. Murrell, Public Defender, Baltimore, on brief), for appellant.

Richard B. Rosenblatt, Asst. Atty. Gen. (Stephen H. Sachs, Atty. Gen., Baltimore, Joseph I. Cassilly, State's Atty. for Harford County and Jay E. Robinson, Asst. State's Atty. for Harford County, Bel Air, on brief), for appellee.

Argued before ADKINS, ALPERT and ROSALYN B. BELL, JJ.

ALPERT, Judge.

In this appeal we are called upon to decide, among other things, what evidence Maryland's Rape Shield statute1 excludes. The statute provides, in relevant part:

(a) Evidence relating to victim's chastity. — Evidence relating to a victim's reputation for chastity and opinion evidence relating to a victim's chastity are not admissible in any prosecution for commission of a rape or sexual offense in the...

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