GREEN v. STATE

No. 922, September Term, 1989.

81 Md. App. 747 (1990)

569 A.2d 741

RICHARD LEE GREEN v. STATE OF MARYLAND.

Court of Special Appeals of Maryland.

February 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.

Diane E. Keller, Asst. Atty. Gen. (J. Joseph Curran, Jr., Atty. Gen., Baltimore, and Frank R. Weathersbee, State's Atty. for Anne Arundel County, Annapolis, on the brief), for appellee.

Submitted before MOYLAN, WENNER and FISCHER, JJ.


MOYLAN, Judge.

In the late Professor Irving Younger's classic illustration of forensic imprecision, the trial attorney, pressed to state a reason for objecting to an item of evidence, responds, "Because it is incompetent, irrelevant and immaterial." That objection, of course, embraces the entire law of evidence. In Younger's words, "It says absolutely everything and thereby says absolutely nothing."

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