Legal Opinion
Marshall v. State
Court of Appeals of Maryland
Decided July 27, 2010No. 9, September Term, 2008PublishedCited by 14 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
JOHN C. ELDRIDGE, J.,
Retired, Specially Assigned.
The question before us in this criminal case concerns the prosecuting attorney’s comments, during closing arguments, about the defendant’s decision not to testify in his own behalf. More specifically, the issue is whether the prosecuting attorney’s comments constituted error under Article 22 of the Maryland Declaration of Rights and Maryland Code (1974, 2006 RepLVol.), § 9-107 of the Courts and Judicial Proceedings Article, or, instead, were permissible under the “invited response” doctrine.
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The petitioner, Thomas Marshall, was charged with…
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