State v. Galicia

State of Maryland v. Rony Galicia No. 5, September Term 2021 Criminal Procedure – Constitutional Law – Confrontation Clause. In a joint trial of several defendants charged with murder, the trial court admitted evidence of an out-of- court statement of a non-testifying defendant solely against that defendant. The witness who described that statement testified that the defendant-declarant had said that “they” had shot the victims. The admission of that out-of-court confession of the non-testifying defendant including the generic plural “they” did not violate the rights of a co-defendant under…