Wright v. State

I concur with the portion of the majority opinion titled Household Member and the determination that the defendant, Rodney Wright, was a “household member” within the meaning of Maryland Code (1957, 1996 RepLVol.), Article 27, § 35C. I dissent from the reversal of Wright’s conviction because the trial judge admitted Wright’s prior inconsistent statement to his one-time cellmate Louis Hurt. In reversing Wright’s rape and child abuse convictions, the majority reaches three illogical and unsupported conclusions. First, the rules for impeaching witnesses and parties by extrinsic evidence of their…