ADKINS v. STATE

No. 158, September Term, 1987.

316 Md. 1 (1989)

557 A.2d 203

DAVID CLEVELAND ADKINS v. STATE OF MARYLAND

Court of Appeals of Maryland.

May 4, 1989.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Laurie I. Mikva, Asst. Public Defender (Alan H. Murrell, Public Defender, both on brief), Baltimore, for appellant.

Valerie J. Smith, Asst. Atty. Gen. (J. Joseph Curran, Jr., Atty. Gen., both on brief), Baltimore, for appellee.

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


BLACKWELL, Judge.

Our primary concern in this homicide case involves the propriety of calling an accomplice as a state's witness in the jury's presence when it is known by the court and counsel that the witness will invoke the privilege against compelled self-incrimination.

The Petition for Writ of Certiorari presented the following additional issues: (1) whether a recorded conversation between the defendant's nontestifying accomplice and an undercover informant...

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