JENSEN v. STATE

No. 138, Sept. Term, 1998.

736 A.2d 307 (1999)

355 Md. 692

Jason Aaron JENSEN v. STATE of Maryland.

Court of Appeals of Maryland.

August 31, 1999.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Geraldine K. Sweeney, Asst. Public Defender (Stephen E. Harris, Public Defender, on brief), Baltimore, for petitioner.

Celia Anderson Davis, Asst. Atty. Gen. (J. Joseph Curran, Jr., Atty. Gen., on brief), Baltimore, for respondent.

Argued before BELL, C.J., and ELDRIDGE, RODOWSKY, CHASANOW, RAKER, WILNER and CATHELL, JJ.


RAKER, Judge.

The issue we must decide is whether the trial court abused its discretion in restricting the testimony of a character witness called to impeach the credibility of another witness. In resolving this appeal, we must decide whether the excluded testimony was admissible under Maryland Rule 5-608(a)(3), which allows a character witness on direct examination to give a "reasonable basis" for opinion testimony but does not permit a witness to testify as to ...

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