Mosley v. State

BATTAGLIA, Judge.

Lawrence Mosley asks this Court to review a decision rendered by the Court of Special Appeals that he was not denied effective assistance of counsel when his counsel did not articulate insufficiency of the evidence as a specific basis for a motion for judgment of acquittal. For the reasons stated *553below, we conclude that the Court of Special Appeals should not have reviewed Mosley’s claim on direct appeal.

I. Background

A. Facts

On January 13, 2001, at 12:45 a.m., Yvonne Bellamy and Angela Fields left a Chinese restaurant located in Baltimore. A man, later identified by the…