JACKSON v. STATE

No. 1008, September Term, 1990.

87 Md. App. 475 (1991)

590 A.2d 177

JESSIE JACKSON v. STATE OF MARYLAND.

Court of Special Appeals of Maryland.

May 29, 1991.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Clarence W. Sharp, Asst. Public Defender (Stephen E. Harris, Public Defender, on the brief), Baltimore, for appellant.

Kathryn Grill Graeff, 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.

Argued before ALPERT, ROSALYN B. BELL and DAVIS, JJ.


ALPERT, Judge.

At the centerpiece of this appeal is the question of whether the trial judge abused his discretion in precluding evidence of a lack of motive to rebut the evidence of motive introduced by the prosecution. A careful review of the law suggests that he did.

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