Simms v. State

Following a trial in August 2008, Perry Simms, a/k/a Perry Sims, appellant, was convicted by a jury in the Circuit Court for Baltimore City of manslaughter in connection with the fatal shooting of twenty-eight year old Paul Cornish.1 Appellant was also convicted of two handgun offenses. Sims, who was eighteen at the time of the offenses, was sentenced to a total of thirty years in prison.

On appeal, we must determine, inter alia, whether the trial court erred by permitting the State to introduce at appellant’s trial a redacted version of his pretrial alibi notice, even though appellant did not…