HOPKINS v. STATE

No. 661, Sept. Term, 2000.

768 A.2d 89 (2001)

137 Md. App. 200

Howard HOPKINS v. STATE of Maryland.

Court of Special Appeals of Maryland.

March 5, 2001.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Julia Doyle Bernhardt, Asst. Public Defender (Stephen E. Harris, Public Defender on the brief), Baltimore, for appellant.

Diane E. Keller, Asst. Atty. Gen. (J. Joseph Curran, Jr., Atty. Gen. and Patricia Jessamy, State's Atty. for Baltimore City on the brief), Baltimore, for appellee.

Argued before MURPHY, C.J., and DAVIS and MARVIN H. SMITH (Retired, Specially Assigned), JJ.


MURPHY, Chief Judge.

In the Circuit Court for Baltimore City, a jury convicted Howard Hopkins, appellant, of second-degree assault. Appellant concedes that the State's evidence was sufficient to prove that he committed this offense upon the twelve-year-old daughter of his former girlfriend, but he argues that he is entitled to a new trial because

I. THE TRIAL COURT ERRED IN ADMITTING [DURING APPELLANT'S CROSS EXAMINATION] A CHILD ABUSE CONVICTION FOR PURPOSES...

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