Archer v. State

GREENE, Judge.

Appellant, Anthony Rodney Archer (“Archer”), asks this Court to determine the extent to which a trial judge may compel a recalcitrant witness to testify when that witness refuses to testify at trial. We review this matter in the context of Archer’s appeal from his convictions for felony murder and attempted murder. He poses the following question for our review:

[Did] the trial court err[ ] by threatening the reluctant State’s witness Lewis Bailey with prosecution for contempt and by suggestion to Mr. Bailey and his counsel that he could avoid the contempt prosecution by…