WATSON v. STATE

No. 111, September Term, 1986.

311 Md. 370 (1988)

535 A.2d 455

JAMES HENRY WATSON v. STATE OF MARYLAND.

Court of Appeals of Maryland.

January 7, 1988.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

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

Mary Ellen Barbera, Asst. Atty. Gen. (Stephen H. Sachs, Atty. Gen., on brief), Baltimore, for appellee.

Argued before ELDRIDGE, COLE, RODOWSKY and COUCH, JJ., and MARVIN H. SMITH and CHARLES E. ORTH, Jr., Associate Judges of the Court of Appeals of Maryland (Retired), Specially Assigned, and W. ALBERT MENCHINE, Associate Judge of the Court of Special Appeals (Retired), Specially Assigned.


COLE, Judge.

We granted certiorari in this case to decide whether the trial judge erred in concluding that he had no discretion to exclude the defendant's prior attempted rape conviction when it was offered for impeachment purposes notwithstanding the fact that the judge found that the conviction's probative value was outweighed by its prejudicial effect.

The parties have agreed to the following facts. James Watson was charged in the Circuit Court for Montgomery...

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