McCloud v. State

ADKINS, Judge.

Before us is a criminal case in which a plea of lack of criminal responsibility was filed. We are asked to decide whether the Circuit Court for Prince George’s County erred when it refused to allow the defense to make the concluding argument to the jury on that issue. The same question was raised in Erdman v. State, 315 Md. 46, 59-60, 553 A.2d 244, 250-251 (1989), and Treece v. State, 313 Md. 665, 683-687, 547 A.2d 1054, 1063-1065 (1988), but we reached it in neither case. We address it now and hold that, under the circumstances of this case, the trial court erred when it…