Legal Opinion
Taylor v. State
Court of Appeals of Maryland
Decided January 5, 2009No. 6 September Term, 2008PublishedCited by 16 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
BATTAGLIA, Judge.
We are called upon to address the confluence of Maryland Rule 5-608(b),1 which allows impeachment by examination regarding the witness’s prior conduct but does not allow proof of the prior conduct by extrinsic evidence, and Maryland Rule 5-806,2 which allows the impeachment of a hearsay declarant *140“by any evidence which would be admissible ... if the declarant had testified as a witness.”
Specifically, Todd Tyrone Taylor, Petitioner, was convicted of third degree sexual assault for engaging in anal intercourse with B.D., a 15 year-old boy, who did not testify at trial. B.D.’s…
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- Merzbacher v. StateCourt of Appeals of Maryland · 1997
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