HARRIS v. STATE

No. 641, September Term, 1989.

81 Md. App. 247 (1989)

567 A.2d 476

DWAYNE HARRIS AKA ERIC HARRIS v. STATE OF MARYLAND.

Court of Special Appeals of Maryland.

Certiorari Granted March 13, 1990.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Bradford C. Peabody, Asst. Public Defender (Alan H. Murrell, Public Defender, on the brief), Baltimore, for appellant.

Kreg Paul Greer, Asst. Atty. Gen. (J. Joseph Curran, Jr., Atty. Gen., on the brief), Baltimore, for appellee.

Argued before MOYLAN, BISHOP and GARRITY, JJ.


MOYLAN, Judge.

The Maryland decisional law on the subject that some call "other crimes evidence" reflects the general state of the law elsewhere and gives no occasion for complaint. The language and the framework of analysis used by both appellate courts of this state to describe and to explain that law, however, leave much to be desired in terms of current usage. Our decisions are better than our opinions. Ironically, the leading opinion on the subject, Ross v...

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