RICHMOND v. STATE

No. 59, September Term, 1991.

326 Md. 257 (1992)

604 A.2d 483

GUY LANCASTER RICHMOND v. STATE OF MARYLAND.

Court of Appeals of Maryland.

April 13, 1992.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Michael J. Moran, Assigned Public Defender, Towson, for appellant.

Kathryn Grill Graeff, Asst. Atty. Gen. (J. Joseph Curran, Jr., Atty. Gen., both on brief), Baltimore, for appellee.

Argued before MURPHY, C.J., and ELDRIDGE, RODOWSKY, McAULIFFE, CHASANOW, KARWACKI and ROBERT M. BELL, JJ.


KARWACKI, Judge.

This case concerns the protection afforded by the Double Jeopardy Clause of the Fifth Amendment against multiple punishments for the same offense.

I.

On February 5, 1987, a fire broke out in a two story apartment building located at Dallas Place in Temple Hills. The building contained approximately ten units. The fire originated in the ground floor apartment of Martha Gobert and quickly spread to the apartment located across a common...

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