Legal Opinion
Wills v. State
Court of Special Appeals of Maryland
Decided May 7, 1990No. 1253, September Term, 1989PublishedCited by 15 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
KARWACKI, Judge.
Joseph Greenfield Wills, the appellant, was convicted by a jury in the Circuit Court for Charles County of distributing cocaine. The court sentenced him to ten years imprisonment. He seeks reversal of that judgment, contending that the court erred in permitting the State to cross-examine him pertaining to his post-arrest silence.
At trial, Detective William Winters of the Charles County Sheriff’s Department testified that, while working undercover at 7:49 p.m. on June 17, 1988, he and two police informants, Deanna Carmody and Elizabeth Butler, went to the home of appellant in…
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