Dickson v. State

A jury in the Circuit Court for Baltimore City convicted Anthony Dickson, a/k/a Robert Louis Dixon, the appellant, of first-degree murder and carrying a weapon with intent to injure in the shooting death of 16-year-old Robert “Butch” Martin. The court imposed a life sentence for the murder conviction and a consecutive sentence of three years for the weapon conviction.

The appellant raises two questions for review, which we quote:

I. Was it error to deny the motion for mistrial, after witness Christina Thomas was improperly coerced by the court, in front of the jury, into testifying for the…