Court Opinion

ID: 9631330
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-22 10:34:39.400137+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T18:07:52.130757
License: Public Domain

RANSOM, Justice (specially concurring). To the extent that, from the opinion filed today, it may be inferred that the trial court’s violation of Rule 5-608(D) constituted fundamental error, alone or in combination with other error, I demur. I concur, nonetheless, that it is important to the administration of justice that Rule 5-608(D) be adhered to in every criminal trial. The dispositive issues in my mind, however, are the matter of the dismissal of the juror without meaningful input and participation by defendant, and prosecutorial misconduct in the extraordinary efforts used to present to the jury the matter of the military conviction that had been ruled inadmissible.