SMALLWOOD v. STATE

No. 141, September Term, 1989.

320 Md. 300 (1990)

577 A.2d 356

JERRY SMALLWOOD, JR. v. STATE OF MARYLAND.

Court of Appeals of Maryland.

August 6, 1990.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mark Colvin, Asst. Public Defender (Alan H. Murrell, Public Defender, Nancy S. Forster, Asst. Public Defender, all on brief), Baltimore, for petitioner.

Jillyn K. Schulze, 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 CHASANOW, JJ.


COLE, Judge.

In this case we are asked to determine whether the trial court erred when it refused to allow cross-examination of a witness as to the outcome of charges she had filed against Petitioner on two previous occasions. Because we believe that the questions were intended to uncover prejudice and bias on the part of the witness, we conclude that it was reversible error for the court to prohibit cross-examination on this point.

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