Newman v. State

ROBERT M. BELL, Judge.

Appellant, Ronald Wayne Newman, was charged with raping and otherwise sexually abusing a thirteen year old girl who babysat his girlfriend’s children at his home. Following a jury trial in the Circuit Court for Prince George’s County, he was convicted of two counts of sex offense in the third degree and of child abuse. Although on his appeal to this court appellant challenges his conviction on six grounds, we need only consider three:

1. The trial judge improperly admitted the unsworn pretrial statement of a defense witness, which statement contained details, furnished by…