State v. Doby

BROCK, Judge.

Defendant contends that “ ... on two occasions witnesses for the State [the investigating police officers] in nonresponsive answers to questions from the Solicitor gratuitously offered prejudicial evidence of information from third parties.” He refers to questions which sought to establish why the police officers initially went to the grill. The first officer stated that an informant had told them that someone in the grill at that time had some heroin and the second officer just stated that they were responding to some information received. The judge properly sustained both…