Curry v. State

A jury in the Criminal Court of Baltimore 1 convicted Darius LaFarge Curry and Guy Davis of first degree murder, kidnapping and the use of a handgun in a crime of violence. Curry and Davis were each sentenced to life imprisonment and a consecutive forty-five additional years. We reverse and remand for a new trial.

We take that action, not because the evidence fails to sustain the jury’s verdict, 2 but because of the assistant state’s attorney’s reckless 3 misrepresentation of the character of two State’s witnesses, as well as the prosecutor’s oblique manner of commenting upon the appellants’…