Legal Opinion
Whitfield v. Warden of Maryland House of Correction
District Court, D. Maryland
Decided February 20, 1973No. Civ. 72-892-KPublishedCited by 6 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MEMORANDUM AND ORDER
FRANK A. KAUFMAN, District Judge.
Conrad Whitfield, presently detained in the Maryland House of Correction, contends that his second trial, on charges of murder and conspiracy to commit murder, would be violative of federal constitutional principles of double jeopardy. 2 On June 21, 1971, a jury trial of Whitfield and his co-defendant Paul C. Baker was commenced in the Circuit Court for Carroll County, Maryland, Judge Weant presiding. During the second day of that trial, while counsel for Whitfield was in the process of arguing, at the end of the prosecution’s case, a…
2Cases cited29 opinions
- Coolidge v. New HampshireSupreme Court of the United States · 1971
- Benton v. MarylandSupreme Court of the United States · 1969
- Green v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1957
- United States v. JornSupreme Court of the United States · 1971
- Palko v. ConnecticutSupreme Court of the United States · 1937
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3Cited by6 opinions
- Neal v. StateCourt of Appeals of Maryland · 1974
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- Hunter v. StateCourt of Special Appeals of Maryland · 1977
- MacPherson v. StateAlaska Supreme Court · 1975
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