State v. Garner

JAMES S. GETTY, Judge.

The primary issue to be decided in this appeal by the State, is whether the Circuit Court for Anne Arundel County properly concluded that the instant prosecutions were barred by the doctrine of double jeopardy. We conclude that they were not and that the trial court erred. Accordingly, we reverse.

Initially, let us isolate the form of jeopardy we are dealing with in order that our discussion not wander into other areas of double jeopardy law having no application to the factual scenario presented herein. We are concerned here with multi-count charging documents, an…