Legal Opinion
Pye v. State
Court of Appeals of Maryland
Decided March 19, 2007No. 113, 114 and 123 Sept. Term, 2004PublishedCited by 13 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
BELL, Chief Judge.
In this opinion, we will resolve three cases, Teel v. State, (No. 123), Womack v. State, (No. 114), and Pye v. State, (No. 113). With one exception, all three cases address essentially the same legal issue and involve essentially the same argument with respect to the merger of certain handgun related offenses. The issue that the three cases have in common, as we have restated it, is:
Whether our holding in Frazier v. State, 318 Md. 597, 569 A.2d 684 (1990), that the offenses of carrying a handgun and possession of a firearm by a convicted person do not merge, is still viable,…
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