Baker v. State

CHASANOW, Judge.

We are called upon to decide the propriety of decisions made by the judge (Whitfill, J.) during the guilto and death-penalty sentencing phases of Wesley Eugene Baker’s first degree murder trial in the Circuit Court for Harford County. The first question before this Court is whether the trial judge abused his discretion by not calling two individuals as the court’s witnesses at the sentencing hearing. The second is whether the judge abused his discretion by admitting “victim impact” testimony that included hearsay statements made by the victim’s family members. The third issue…