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MUIR v. STATE

No. 124, September Term, 1985.

64 Md. App. 648 (1985)

498 A.2d 666

GARY MICHAEL MUIR v. STATE OF MARYLAND.

Court of Special Appeals of Maryland.

October 8, 1985.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Jonathan Scott Smith, Assigned Public Defender, Ellicott City (Alan H. Murrell, Public Defender, Baltimore, on the brief), for appellant.

Richard B. Rosenblatt, Asst. Atty. Gen. (Stephen H. Sachs, Atty. Gen., Baltimore, Arthur A. Marshall, Jr., State's Atty. for Prince George's County and William Shockley, Asst. State's Atty. for Prince George's County, Upper Marlboro, on brief), for appellee.

Argued before GILBERT, C.J., and WEANT and GARRITY, JJ.

GILBERT, C.J.

"Ambiguity in statutes may not be the parent of litigation, but it is certainly a kissing cousin."1

The late Judge John P. Moore, writing for this Court in Calhoun v. State, 46 Md.App. 478, 418 A.2d 1241 (1980), aff'd, 290 Md. 1, 425 A.2d 1361 (1981), characterized...

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