Legal Opinion
State v. Ferrell
Court of Special Appeals of Maryland
Decided May 19, 1986No. 1239, September Term, 1985PublishedCited by 6 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
KARWACKI, Judge.
In this case we shall hold that the appellee’s prosecution for use of a handgun in the commission of a felony or crime of violence was barred by his former conviction of robbery with a deadly weapon 1 where both prosecutions were based upon a single act of robbery with a handgun. Accordingly, we shall affirm the decision of the Circuit Court for Baltimore County which granted the appellee’s motion to dismiss the second prosecution.
The issue arose under facts which can be briefly stated. On December 80, 1984, Raist Vernon Ferrell, the appellee, was a participant in the robbery…
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