WHITE v. STATE

No. 1567, Sept. Term, 1997.

726 A.2d 858 (1999)

125 Md. App. 684

Ricky Edward WHITE v. STATE of Maryland.

Court of Special Appeals of Maryland.

April 5, 1999.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Amy L. McGinnis (Jennifer P. Lyman, Assigned Public Defender, on brief), Washington, DC, for appellant.

Diane E. Keller, Asst. Atty. Gen. (J. Joseph Curran, Atty. Gen., Baltimore, and Jack B. Johnson, State's Atty. for Price George's County, Upper Marlboro, on the brief), for appellee.

Argued before MOYLAN, SONNER and BYRNES, JJ.


SONNER, Judge.

The appellant in this case complains that he received an unfair trial for two reasons: first, because the court refused to give the jury his requested instruction about good character evidence and, second, because the court, after improper remarks in the assistant state's attorney's closing argument, failed to admonish the prosecutor in front of the jury. On the first issue, we hold that the court was correct...

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