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WYNN v. STATE

No. 90, Sept. Term , 1997.

718 A.2d 588 (1998)

351 Md. 307

James Othel WYNN v. STATE of Maryland.

Court of Appeals of Maryland.

October 5, 1998.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Gina M. Serra, Asst. Public Defender (Stephen E. Harris, Public Defender, on brief), Baltimore, for Petitioner.

Emmet Davitt, Asst. Atty. Gen. (J. Joseph Curran, Jr., Atty. Gen., on brief), Baltimore, for Respondent.

Argued before BELL, C.J., and ELDRIDGE, RODOWSKY, CHASANOW, RAKER, WILNER and CATHELL, JJ.

CATHELL, Judge.

As early as 1892, the Supreme Court of the United States, in Boyd v. United States, 142 U.S. 450, 12 S.Ct. 292, 294, 35 L.Ed. 1077 (1892), reversed a criminal conviction because evidence of other crimes had been admitted improperly. The Supreme Court stated:

The principal assignments of error relate to the admission, against the objection of the defendants, of evidence as to several robberies committed...

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