Willis v. State

On June 28, 2005, Ronald Marvin Willis, the appellant, was tried on an agreed statement of facts in the Circuit Court for Howard County. He was convicted of committing a theft that allegedly occurred eighteen years earlier (on August 7, 1987). On appeal, he raises a single issue: Did the circuit court apply an incorrect legal standard in denying his motion to dismiss the indictment for excessive pre-indictment delay? Because the circuit court properly applied the standard adopted by the Court of Appeals in Clark v. State, 364 Md. 611, 774 A.2d 1136 (2001), we answer “no” to the question and…