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BELL v. STATE

[No. 12, September Term, 1979.]

286 Md. 193 (1979)

406 A.2d 909

MARIE LANIER BELL v. STATE OF MARYLAND

Court of Appeals of Maryland.

Decided October 22, 1979.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Kenneth V. Heland, with whom were Richardson, Anderson & Heland on the brief, for appellant.

Alexander L. Cummings, Assistant Attorney General, with whom were Stephen H. Sachs, Attorney General, and Deborah K. Handel, Assistant Attorney General, on the brief, for appellee.

The cause was argued before MURPHY, C.J., and SMITH, ELDRIDGE, ORTH and COLE, JJ.

ORTH, J., delivered the opinion of the Court.

The issue for decision in this criminal case is whether the Double Jeopardy Clause of the Fifth Amendment to the Constitution of the United States1 would be violated by a retrial of the appellant, Marie Lanier Bell, after her original trial had ended in a mistrial at her request.

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Mrs. Bell went to trial before a jury in the Circuit Court for Wicomico County, Pollitt, J....

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