Neam v. Maryland
MD.40365; 14 Md. App. 180; 286 A.2d 540 (1972)
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Recognizing at once its utility and its hazards, the law permits evidence of prior crimes to be used to impeach the credibility of even a defendant-witness but austerely limits such prior crimes to actual convictions and, indeed, to convictions consonant with the Sixth Amendment's right to counsel.1 The case at bar reveals the hazards at their most virulent.