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SIMPSON v. STATE

No. 22, Sept. Term, 2014.

112 A.3d 941 (2015)

442 Md. 446

William Siam SIMPSON, III v. STATE of Maryland.

Court of Appeals of Maryland.

April 7, 2015.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John Christopher Belcher (Oxon Hill, MD), on brief, for Petitioner.

Ryan R. Dietrich, Asst. Atty. Gen. (Douglas F. Gansler, Atty. Gen. of Maryland, Baltimore, MD), on brief, for Respondent.

Argued before: BARBERA, C.J., HARRELL, BATTAGLIA, GREENE, ADKINS, McDONALD and WATTS, JJ.

It is well understood that the federal and Maryland constitutions prohibit the prosecutor in a criminal case from making an adverse comment upon the defendant's failure to testify. Griffin v. California, 380 U.S. 609, 85 S.Ct. 1229, 14 L.Ed.2d 106 (1965) (holding that the prosecutor's comment...

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