LEWIS v. STATE

No. 1128, September Term, 1986.

71 Md. App. 402 (1987)

526 A.2d 66

DONALD LEWIS v. STATE OF MARYLAND.

Court of Special Appeals of Maryland.

June 4, 1987.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Victor A. Houlon (Pickett, Houlon & Berman, on brief, Hyattsville), Philip H. Armstrong (Louis J. Fiechtner and Heeney, Armstrong & Heeney, on brief), Rockville, for appellant.

Mary Ellen Barbera, Asst. Atty. Gen. (J. Joseph Curran, Jr., Atty. Gen., Baltimore, Alexander Williams, Jr., State's Atty. for Prince George's County and Thomas McManus, Asst. State's Atty. for Prince George's County, on brief, Upper Marlboro), for appellee.

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


ALPERT, Judge.

Like the immovable object meeting the irresistable force, here the right of cross-examination confronts the right of the trial judge to limit it. We believe the trial judge's constraints were a bit too stringent.

Appellant Donald Lewis (Lewis) was tried by a jury upon an eight-count indictment in the Circuit Court for Prince George's County. The jurors found Lewis guilty of attempted first degree rape, use of a handgun in the commission of a...

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