Legal Opinion
Key-El v. State
Court of Appeals of Maryland
Decided May 26, 1998No. 5, Sept. Term, 1997PublishedCited by 21 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
*813ROBERT L. KARWACKI, Judge (retired),
Specially-Assigned.
We issued a writ of certiorari in this criminal case to determine whether the trial court properly admitted rebuttal evidence regarding the defendant’s pre-arrest silence when his wife, in the presence of a police officer, accused the defendant of battering her. We shall hold that the court did not abuse its discretion in admitting that evidence as a tacit admission by the defendant under the circumstances present in the instant case.
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On August 19, 1994, at approximately 10 p.m. a telephone call was placed to the emergency telephone…
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3Cited by21 opinions
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