Court of Appeals of Maryland· 11/29/1989

Bedford v. State

Citations

566 A.2d 111
317 Md. 659
1989 Md. LEXIS 163

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holding that “possession of the wire is so equivocal ... its admission into evidence was more prejudicial to Bedford than probative of an intent to escape and should have been excluded.”
holding that it was reversible error to admit into evidence a four inch wire that prison guards discovered during a strip search in order to show that Bedford had attempted to escape from custody
holding that evidence that the incarcerated capital murder defendant was carrying a four-inch piece of sharpened metal wire on his person was too equivocal as evidence of a plan to escape and unfairly prejudiced the defendant, and as such, was inadmissible
upholding the admission of evidence that, on the morning Bedford was brought to the courthouse for trial, he walked away from the holding cell and was spotted by an officer “duck[ing] into an open cell” that was located in a darkened hallway elsewhere in the basement lockup
\Maryland Declaration of Rights Article XXI guarantees a defendant the right to examine prospective jurors to determine whether any cause exists for a juror's disqualification.\
“Maryland Declaration of Rights Article XXI guarantees a defendant the right to examine prospective jurors to determine whether any cause exists for a juror’s disqualification.”

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Judges: Cole

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