FIELDS v. STATE

No. 1432, September Term, 1992.

96 Md. App. 722 (1993)

626 A.2d 1037

JAMES FIELDS v. STATE OF MARYLAND.

Court of Special Appeals of Maryland.

July 2, 1993.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Ronald S. Kowitz, Baltimore, for appellant.

Annabelle L. Lisic, Asst. Atty. Gen., Baltimore (J. Joseph Curran, Jr., Atty. Gen., Baltimore, and Sandra A. O'Connor, State's Atty. for Baltimore County, Towson, on the brief), for appellee.

Submitted before MOYLAN, ALPERT and FISCHER, JJ.


MOYLAN, Judge.

What we observed a decade ago in West v. State, 52 Md.App. 624, 625, 451 A.2d 1228 (1982), is equally pertinent as we take up the present appeal:

"We are here called upon to explore a secluded but exotic corner of the double jeopardy garden — prosecutorial and judicial overreaching. In life, it is seldom seen except as an imagined possibility in the most painstakingly...

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