State v. Griffiths

The Court of Special Appeals held that the present case was controlled by this Court’s decision in Middleton v. State, 318 Md. 749, 569 A.2d 1276 (1990), and that the Maryland common law principles set forth in Middleton required a reversal of the judgment on count one charging possession of cocaine with *498intent to distribute. The Court of Special Appeals also expressed the view that the Maryland common law principles set forth in Middleton “are not consistent with” the views expressed by the Supreme Court in Ohio v. Johnson, 467 U.S. 493, 104 S.Ct. 2536, 81 L.Ed.2d 425 (1984), which dealt…