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WOODLIN v. STATE

No. 22, Sept. Term, 2022.

298 A.3d 834 (2023)

484 Md. 253

John Matthew WOODLIN v. STATE of Maryland.

Supreme Court of Maryland.

July 26, 2023.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Argued by Claudia A. Cortese, Asst. Public Defender (Natasha M. Dartigue, Public Defender of Maryland, Baltimore, MD), on brief, for Petitioner.

Argued by Peter R. Naugle, Asst. Atty. Gen. (Anthony G. Brown, Atty. Gen. of Maryland, Baltimore, MD), on brief, for Respondent.

Argued before: Fader, C.J., Watts, Hotten, Booth, Biran, Gould, Eaves, JJ.

A common law rule in American jurisprudence prohibits a government from using in the criminal prosecution of a defendant "evidence of [that] defendant's evil character to establish a probability of his [or her] guilt."1 Such evidence includes the defendant's "prior trouble with the law, specific criminal acts...

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