Johnson v. State

Does an acquittal entered weeks after a judge declared a mistrial and discharged the jury have the same effect as an acquittal declared after all of the evidence is adduced under Maryland Rule 4-324? 1 Michael M. Johnson, Petitioner, as serts that the answer must be yes, while the State would answer the question in the negative.

The four questions raised by Johnson in his petition for certiorari, 2 449 Md. 410, 144 A.3d 705 (2016), which we have collapsed into two for clarity, queue up the issue:

1. Was the trial court’s grant of the motion for judgment of acquittal procedurally proper because…