McClurkin & Jackson v. State

Tavon Jackson and Dijon MeClurkin, appellants, were tried together, by a jury in the Circuit Court for Baltimore City, for the attempted first-degree murder of Reginald Devon Maynard (whom we shall hereafter refer to as “the victim”) as well as for the offenses they perpetrated in committing that crime, which included the separate offense of assault upon the victim’s mother. 1 At their joint trial, recordings of telephone calls made by the then-incarcerated appellants, in which they sought to have others pressure the victim into recanting his identification of them as his assailants, were…