Legal Opinion
Fields v. State
Court of Special Appeals of Maryland
Decided July 2, 1993No. 1432, September Term, 1992PublishedCited by 18 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MOYLAN, Judge.
What we observed a decade ago in West v. State, 52 Md.App. 624, 625, 451 A.2d 1228 (1982), is equally pertinent as we take up the present appeal:
“We are here called upon to explore a secluded but exotic corner of the double jeopardy garden — prosecutorial and judicial overreaching. In life, it is seldom seen except as an imagined possibility in the most painstakingly thorough of footnotes. As a contention, however, it is in luxuriant vogue and is being resorted to promiscuously.”
The appellant, James Fields, went to trial along with a codefendant before a Baltimore County jury on…
2Cases cited37 opinions
- Bruton v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1968
- North Carolina v. PearceSupreme Court of the United States · 1969
- Burks v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1978
- Ashe v. SwensonSupreme Court of the United States · 1970
- United States v. JornSupreme Court of the United States · 1971
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3Cited by18 opinions
- Ware v. StateCourt of Appeals of Maryland · 2000
- Tharp v. StateCourt of Appeals of Maryland · 2000
- Robinson v. CommonwealthCourt of Appeals of Virginia · 1994
- Malarkey v. StateCourt of Special Appeals of Maryland · 2009
- State v. MuhannadNebraska Supreme Court · 2013
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