Oberlin v. Maryland

We granted certiorari in this criminal case to consider whether the trial court erred in admitting, in the course of cross-examination, certain evidence of the defendants silence between the time of the crime and the time of his arrest, in light of the principles set forth in Doyle v. Ohio, 426 U.S. 610, 96 S. Ct. 2240, 49 L.Ed.2d 91 (1976); United States v. Hale, 422 U.S. 171, 95 S. Ct. 2133, 45 L.Ed.2d 99 (1975); and Younie v. State, 272 Md. 233, 322 A.2d 211 (1974). See also State v. Raithel, 285 Md. 478, 404 A.2d 264 (1979). This issue has not previously been considered by this Court, and apparently there has been some divergence among cases in other