Ginsberg v. McIntire

RODOWSKY, Judge.

We granted certiorari on our own motion in this appeal, prior to its consideration by the Court of Special Appeals, primarily to consider the following, somewhat argumentatively phrased, issue:

“Did the trial court commit reversible error by permitting appellee to call a sitting Maryland state court judge as a witness on an irrelevant issue and to trumpet continually his judicial status before the jury, thereby allowing appellee to stamp her case with the imprimatur of a sitting judge?”

The appeal also raises sufficiency of the evidence issues, embellished by the parties’…