Silva v. State

Petitioner Enrique Pizzaro Silva 1 was convicted by a jury in the Circuit Court for Baltimore County of two counts of first-degree premeditated murder. At trial, the State called three witnesses who were present at the crime scene: William Salmerón, Jose Arnold Castillo, and William Flores. Salmerón was an admitted accomplice to the murders; both Castillo and Flores denied involvement. Petitioner asked the trial court to instruct the jury that all three witnesses were accomplices as a matter of law, and, consequently, their testimony linking Petitioner to the murders required corroboration in…