TYLER v. STATE

No. 862 September Term, 1994.

105 Md. App. 495 (1995)

JERRY S. TYLER v. STATE OF MARYLAND.

Court of Special Appeals of Maryland.

June 30, 1995.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

George E. Burns, Asst. Public Defender (Stephen E. Harris, Public Defender, on the brief), Baltimore, for appellant.

David P. Kennedy, Asst. Atty. Gen. (J. Joseph Curran, Jr., Atty. Gen., Baltimore, and Alexander Williams, Jr., State's Atty. for Prince George's County, Upper Marlboro, on the brief), for appellee.

Argued before WILNER, C.J., and MOYLAN, BISHOP, ALPERT, BLOOM, WENNER, FISCHER, CATHELL, DAVIS, HARRELL, MURPHY, HOLLANDER and SALMON, JJ.


MOYLAN, Judge.

The critical issue on this appeal involves us in what Nance v. State, 331 Md. 549, 552, 629 A.2d 633 (1993), referred to as "the classic evidentiary problem of the turncoat witness." The appellant is Jerry S. Tyler, who was convicted by a Prince George's County jury, presided over by Judge Arthur M. Ahalt, of murder in the first degree and other related offenses. The turncoat witness...

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