ALLEN v. STATE

No. 10, September Term, 1988.

318 Md. 166 (1989)

567 A.2d 118

LLOYD DAVID ALLEN v. STATE OF MARYLAND.

Court of Appeals of Maryland.

December 26, 1989.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Jose Felipe Anderson, Asst. Public Defender (Alan H. Murrell, Public Defender, both on brief), Baltimore, for petitioner.

Norman L. Smith, Asst. Atty. Gen. (J. Joseph Curran, Jr., Atty. Gen., both on brief), Baltimore, for respondent.

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


COLE, Judge.

In this case we shall decide whether the trial judge erred when he called a prosecution witness as the court's witness when both the court and the prosecutor knew that the witness intended to claim his privilege against self-incrimination.

Petitioner, Lloyd David Allen, was tried by a jury in the Circuit Court for Prince George's County for his alleged involvement in the February 3, 1986, robbery of an establishment known as Godfather's Pizza...

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