Johnson v. State

HARRELL, Judge.

Larry Marcus Johnson, Petitioner, was convicted in the Circuit Court for Anne Arundel County of fourteen counts of theft over $300. He appealed to the Court of Special Appeals, arguing that the Circuit Court erred because it refused to compel the State to provide the defense with a copy of Petitioner’s pre-trial recorded statement 1 and yet permitted the State, over Petitioner’s objection, to adduce at trial the testimony of one of Petitioner’s police interrogators concerning his version of the inculpatory content of that statement. The intermediate appellate court rejected…