SHEPPARD v. STATE

No. 191, September Term, 1994.

102 Md. App. 571 (1994)

ANDRE ORLANTO SHEPPARD v. STATE OF MARYLAND.

Court of Special Appeals of Maryland.

December 28, 1994.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Margaret L. Lanier, Asst. Public Defender (Stephen E. Harris, Public Defender, on the brief), Baltimore, for appellant.

Kreg Paul Greer, Asst. Atty. Gen. (J. Joseph Curran, Jr., Atty. Gen., Baltimore, and Andrew L. Sonner, State's Atty. for Montgomery County, Rockville, on the brief), for appellee.

Submitted before WILNER, C.J., and MOYLAN and BISHOP, JJ.


MOYLAN, Judge.

Our disposition of this appeal is directly controlled by the significant change in the Maryland law of evidence effected by the Court of Appeals decision in Nance v. State, 331 Md. 549, 629 A.2d 633 (1993).

Prior to the Nance opinion, Maryland had been "one of only a handful of states to adhere to the orthodox rule barring use of prior inconsistent statements as...

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