State v. Moulden

Melvin Moulden was charged by criminal information with armed robbery, simple robbery and related offenses. He was tried twice in the Criminal Court of Baltimore, and the

broad question before us now is whether, under all of the circumstances, further trial court proceedings are precluded by double jeopardy principles.

At the defendant’s first trial, the number of potential jurors available was insufficient to permit both the defense and the prosecution to exercise all of the peremptory challenges allotted by Maryland Rule 753 in an armed robbery prosecution. As a result, the State elected not…