Green v. State

In this criminal case concerning the State’s obligation to disclose to a defendant’s counsel information regarding a State’s witness’s pretrial identification of a co-defendant and whether the State was required to make such a disclosure under the circumstances of this case, the Court of Appeals held (1) Maryland Rule 4-263(d)(7)(B), by its plain language and history, does not require disclosure of pretrial identifications of co-defendants; and (2) a pretrial identification of a co-defendant is relevant information regarding pretrial identification of the defendant under Maryland Rule 4-263(d)(7)(B) where the pretrial identification of the co-defendant is the equivalent of a pretrial identification of the defendant as the person responsible for the crime. Accordingly, in this case, the State was obligated to disclose during discovery a witness’s pretrial identification of Defendant’s co-defendant as the person who was not the shooter. View "Green v. State" on Justia Law