Kazadi v. State

Graeff, Beachley, Raymond G. Thieme, Jr. (Senior Judge, Specially Assigned), JJ.

Thieme, J.

*161 On the evening of August 18, 2015, in an alley behind the 200 block of North Conkling Street in Baltimore, twenty-one-year-old Brandon Smith was fatally shot. The State tried appellant Tshibangu Kazadi, a resident of that street, for Mr. Smith's murder. Critical to that prosecution was eyewitness *162 testimony by two of appellant's next-door neighbors - a mother and her minor son, whose immigration statuses were the subject of discovery and cross-examination rulings that are challenged in this appeal.…