Giddins v. State

BATTAGLIA, Judge.

Petitioner, Damont Isaiah Giddins, seeks review of the Court of Special Appeals’s judgment affirming the denial of his “Motion to Bar Retrial Following Mistrial (Double Jeopardy)” after the Circuit Court for Worcester County had granted Mr. Giddins’s motion for mistrial during direct examination of the State’s first witness. We granted certiorari in this case to answer the following questions:

1. Whether the trial court entered an order that was a “favorable termination,” tantamount to an acquittal of Petitioner, when it granted a mistrial and discharged the jury, and…