WILLS v. STATE

No. 1253, September Term, 1989.

82 Md. App. 669 (1990)

573 A.2d 80

JOSEPH GREENFIELD WILLS v. STATE OF MARYLAND.

Court of Special Appeals of Maryland.

May 7, 1990.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Gary S. Bernstein (William H. Murphy, Jr., on brief), Baltimore, for appellant.

Thomas K. Clancy, Asst. Atty. Gen. (J. Joseph Curran, Jr., Atty. Gen., Baltimore, and Richard A. Cooper, State's Atty., for Charles County, La Plata, on brief), for appellee.

Argued before GARRITY, ALPERT and KARWACKI, JJ.


KARWACKI, Judge.

Joseph Greenfield Wills, the appellant, was convicted by a jury in the Circuit Court for Charles County of distributing cocaine. The court sentenced him to ten years imprisonment. He seeks reversal of that judgment, contending that the court erred in permitting the State to cross-examine him pertaining to his post-arrest silence.

At trial, Detective William Winters of the Charles County Sheriff's Department testified that, while working undercover...

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