State v. Ferguson

J. FREDERICK SHARER, J. (Retired, Specially Assigned)

In these consolidated appeals, the State challenges related decisions by the Circuit Court for Baltimore City to dismiss two indictments charging Devin Ferguson, appellee, with handgun offenses.

In August 2011, the State indicted Ferguson on three firearms charges, including two counts of possessing a firearm after having been convicted of a disqualifying crime. When the parties appeared for trial in February 2012, Ferguson complained that the indictment failed to identify his predicate conviction and contained other ambiguities, but trial…