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STATE v. GARNER

No. 654, September Term, 1991.

90 Md. App. 392 (1992)

601 A.2d 142

STATE OF MARYLAND v. ROBERT IGNATIUS GARNER, III.

Court of Special Appeals of Maryland.

February 6, 1992.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

David P. Kennedy, Asst. Atty. Gen., Baltimore (J. Joseph Curran, Jr., Atty. Gen., Baltimore, and Walter B. Dorsey, State's Atty. for St. Mary's County, Leonardtown, on the brief), for appellant.

No brief or appearance by appellee's counsel.

Argued before MOYLAN, BISHOP and FISCHER, JJ.

MOYLAN, Judge.

Even the expansive version of double jeopardy law promulgated by Grady v. Corbin, 495 U.S. 508, 110 S.Ct. 2084, 109 L.Ed.2d 548 (1990),1 was intended to be, at most, a shield to protect a defendant from oppressively successive prosecutions by the State. It was never intended to be a sword with which a defendant could opportunistically manipulate or disrupt proper charges properly filed...

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