MATTHEWS v. STATE

No. 24, September Term, 1995.

106 Md. App. 725 (1995)

MELVIN MATTHEWS v. STATE OF MARYLAND.

Court of Special Appeals of Maryland.

November 3, 1995.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Michael R. Malloy, Assistant Public Defender (Stephen E. Harris, Public Defender, on the brief), Baltimore, for appellant.

Diane E. Keller, Assistant Attorney General (J. Joseph Curran, Jr., Attorney General, Baltimore, and Andrew L. Sonner, State's Attorney for Montgomery County, Rockville, on the brief), for appellee.

Submitted before MOYLAN, ALPERT and CATHELL, JJ.


CATHELL, Judge.

Appellant, Melvin Matthews, was convicted in a jury trial in the Circuit Court for Montgomery County (Beard, J., presiding) of second degree rape and child abuse. He was sentenced to twenty years imprisonment for the rape conviction and to a concurrent fifteen-year term for the child abuse conviction.

On appeal, appellant presents the following questions:

1. Was Appellant's self-incriminating statement involuntary and taken in violation...

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