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WICKS v. STATE

No. 4, September Term, 1987.

311 Md. 376 (1988)

535 A.2d 459

JACK ELLWOOD WICKS v. STATE OF MARYLAND.

Court of Appeals of Maryland.

January 7, 1988.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Gary S. Offutt, Asst. Public Defender (Alan H. Murrell, Public Defender, on the brief), Baltimore, for appellant.

Mary Ellen Barbera, Asst. Atty. Gen. (J. Joseph Curran, Jr., Atty. Gen., Baltimore City, Warren B. Duckett, Jr., State's Atty. for Anne Arundel County and Philip T. Caroom, Asst. State's Atty., Annapolis, on the brief), for appellee.

Argued before MURPHY, C.J., and ELDRIDGE, COLE, RODOWSKY, COUCH, McAULIFFE and ADKINS, JJ.

COLE, Judge.

In this case we shall decide whether the trial judge had the discretion to exclude the defendant's prior petit larceny conviction for impeachment purposes.

Jack Ellwood Wicks was indicted in the Circuit Court for Anne Arundel County for sexual child abuse, assault, assault and battery, and third degree sexual offense. At trial, defense counsel moved in limine to exclude Wicks's 35-year-old petit larceny conviction for impeachment purposes...

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