Cure v. State

We issued a writ of certiorari in this case to revisit a question we addressed most recently in Brown v. State, 373 Md. 234, 817 A.2d 241 (2003), namely, whether a defendant, who reveals a prior conviction in his or her direct examination during the defense case-in-chief (knowing that the trial judge ruled in limine that the State will be allowed to impeach him or her with the prior conviction in cross-examination), waives his or her right to appellate review of the trial judge’s in limine ruling. Secondly, this case presents an opportunity to consider the admissibility vel non of a prior…