Clark v. State

CHASANOW, Judge.

Petitioner, Hammel Jay Clark, III, was tried in the Circuit Court for Baltimore City and was convicted by a jury of first degree rape, resisting arrest, and assault. The trial judge sentenced Clark to life imprisonment for the rape and to concurrent ten-year prison terms for resisting arrest and assault. The Court of Special Appeals affirmed the convictions in an unreported opinion. We granted Clark’s petition for certiorari to consider whether, after a police witness volunteered at Clark’s trial that Clark was “implicated as a suspect” in another rape case, the trial judge…