Grimm v. State

ANGELA ANN GRIMM v. STATE OF MARYLAND
Court of Appeals, Greene, Filed May 4, 2016,
Testimony – Antithesis Inference – Discredited non-party testimony “is assigned no weight” and can not be used “in the consideration of the ultimate issue.” (Belief that a non-party witness is lying can not independently support the argument that the opposite is true)

(Dissent – Watts – Witness testimony that they could not remember whether or not they had sex with their step-mother was sufficiently preposterous to support the defendant’s confession)

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