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STATE v. RIVENBARK

No. 55, September Term, 1986.

311 Md. 147 (1987)

533 A.2d 271

STATE OF MARYLAND v. BILLY CLAYTON RIVENBARK.

Court of Appeals of Maryland.

November 20, 1987.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Valerie V. Cloutier, Asst. Atty. Gen. (Stephen H. Sachs, Atty. Gen., on the brief), Baltimore, for appellant.

Howard L. Cardin, Assigned Public Defender (Mark L. Gitomer, Assigned Public Defender, on the brief), Baltimore, for appellee.

Argued before MURPHY, C.J., ELDRIDGE, COLE, RODOWSKY, COUCH, and McAULIFFE, JJ. and MARVIN H. SMITH, Associate Judge of the Court of Appeals (retired), specially assigned.

ELDRIDGE, Judge.

Under a well-established exception to the hearsay rule, a co-conspirator's statements made while the conspiracy is in effect and in furtherance of its aims are admissible against fellow conspirators. Lawrence v. State, 103 Md. 17, 20, 63 A. 96, 97-98 (1906); Bloomer v. State, 48 Md. 521, 531 (1878). The principal question in the present case concerns whether, after the conspirators have attained their central objectives, there is an...

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