Weathers v. State

As Judge Moylan, writing for this Court, has stated: “The law could not be more clear that a wide discretion is vested in the trial judge to control the course of the trial and the exercise of such discretion will not be reversed on appellate review except on those rare cases where there has been a clear abuse of that discretion.” Thrifty Diversified, Inc. v. *114Thomas R. Searles, 48 Md.App. 605, 615, 429 A.2d 270 (1981). This is one of those rare eases.

Appellant, Robert Antoine Weathers, was convicted by a jury in the Circuit Court for Baltimore County, Maryland of theft of property with a…