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BEALES v. STATE

No. 64, September Term, 1992.

329 Md. 263 (1993)

619 A.2d 105

WILLIAM LEE BEALES v. STATE OF MARYLAND.

Court of Appeals of Maryland.

February 5, 1993.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Martha G. Weisheit, Asst. Public Defender (Stephen E. Harris, Public Defender, both on brief) Baltimore, for appellant.

Mary Ann Ince, Asst. Atty. Gen. (J. Joseph Curran, Jr., Atty. Gen., both on brief) Baltimore, for appellee.

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

MURPHY, Chief Judge.

Maryland Rule 1-502 governing the impeachment of witnesses by evidence of a prior criminal conviction took effect January 1, 1992. It provides in pertinent part:

"(a) Generally. — For the purpose of attacking the credibility of a witness, evidence that the witness has been convicted of a crime shall be admitted if elicited from the witness or established by public record during cross-examination, but only if the crime was...

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