ARCA v. STATE

No. 1077, September Term, 1986.

71 Md. App. 102 (1987)

523 A.2d 1064

BYRON ARCA v. STATE OF MARYLAND.

Court of Special Appeals of Maryland.

Certiorari Denied August 3, 1987.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

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

Jillyn K. Schulze, Asst. Atty. Gen. (J. Joseph Curran, Jr., Atty. Gen., Kurt L. Schmoke, State's Atty. for Baltimore City and Gary Schenker, Asst. State's Atty. for Baltimore City, on brief), Baltimore, for appellee.

Argued before MOYLAN, WILNER and POLLITT, JJ.


WILNER, Judge.

We have tried on occasion to caution prosecutors against overkill, against pounding so many nails into the defendant's coffin that they split the wood and have to start again. We recognize, of course, that, as an appellate court, we get to view the case from the enviable position of hindsight, and that what may seem to us to be unnecessary overkill may not seem so to the participants in a hotly contested trial. That is why, especially on matters relating...

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