RAINVILLE v. STATE

No. 54, September Term, 1991.

328 Md. 398 (1992)

614 A.2d 949

ROBERT PAUL RAINVILLE v. STATE OF MARYLAND.

Court of Appeals of Maryland.

November 6, 1992.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John L. Kopolow, Asst. Public Defender (Stephen E. Harris, Public Defender, on brief), Baltimore, for petitioner.

Sarah E. Page, Asst. Atty. Gen. (J. Joseph Curran, Jr., Atty. Gen., on brief), Baltimore, for respondent.

Argued before MURPHY, C.J., and ELDRIDGE, RODOWSKY, McAULIFFE, CHASANOW, KARWACKI and ROBERT M. BELL, JJ.


McAULIFFE, Judge.

In a difficult case involving charges that the defendant raped and otherwise sexually abused a seven-year-old girl, a State's witness testified that several weeks after the alleged assault the defendant was "in jail for what he had done to Michael [the victim's nine-year-old brother]." Defense counsel, who had earlier filed a motion in limine asking that the court order the prosecutor and the State's witnesses not to make any reference to...

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