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Bradley v. State

Citations

  • 636 A.2d 999
  • 333 Md. 593
  • 1994 Md. LEXIS 24

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

  • “Impeachment” is “a shield” that “protects a party from unfavorable testimony,” not “a sword to place otherwise inadmissible evidence before the jury”
  • “in instances where a witness’s testimony is not reasonably divisible into clearly separate areas of inquiry, the State may properly impeach any portion of the witness’s testimony that disfavors the government’s case” (citations omitted)
  • “Impeachment may be thought of as a shield [which] ... protects a party from unfavorable testimony by neutralizing that testimony ... [and] should not be used as a sword to place otherwise inadmissible evidence before the jury....”
  • \Impeachment may be thought of as a shield [which] ... protects a party from unfavorable testimony by neutralizing that testimony ... [and] should not be used as a sword to place otherwise inadmissible evidence before the jury....\

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Judges: Chasanow, Murphy, Eldridge, Rodowsky, McAuliffe, Bell

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