Nance v. State

McAULIFFE, Judge.

This case presents the classic evidentiary problem of the turncoat witness. We must determine the admissibility, as substantive evidence, of witnesses’ out-of-court identifications, signed statements to police, and grand jury testimony, all of which the witnesses largely repudiated at trial.

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Shortly after nine o’clock on the evening of April 3, 1990, gunshots erupted near the intersection of East Lombard and South Exeter Streets adjacent to the Flag House projects in Baltimore City. A passer-by, Sandra Keve, was struck in the leg and crawled to safety. The target of the…