COPSEY v. STATE

No. 937, September Term, 1985.

67 Md. App. 223 (1986)

507 A.2d 186

JAMES WILMER COPSEY v. STATE OF MARYLAND.

Court of Special Appeals of Maryland.

April 8, 1986.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Theodore P. Weiner (Paul J. Bailey, on brief), Leonardtown, for appellant.

Valerie V. Cloutier, Asst. Atty. Gen. (Stephen H. Sachs, Atty. Gen., Baltimore, Richard Cooper, State's Atty. for Charles County and Leonard Collins, Asst. State's Atty. for Charles County on brief, LaPlata), for appellee.

Argued before MOYLAN, WEANT and KARWACKI, JJ.


MOYLAN, Judge.

The mushrooming case law on double jeopardy over the last several decades has treated almost exclusively the subtleties and nuances emerging on the far periphery of that complex subject — collateral estoppel, multiple-jurisdiction prosecutions, prosecutorial overreaching, etc. The present appeal, by way of contrast, touches the core value of that law. Whereas frequently we are confronting strained attenuations of the invigorating principle, we...

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