STATE v. JONES

No. 42, September Term, 1995.

340 Md. 235 (1995)

STATE OF MARYLAND v. ERNEST JONES, JR.

Court of Appeals of Maryland.

October 16, 1995.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mary Ellen Barbera, Assistant Attorney General (J. Joseph Curran, Jr., Attorney General, on brief), Baltimore, for Petitioner.

Leonard R. Stamm (Goldstein & Stamm, P.A., on brief), Greenbelt, for Respondent.

Argued before MURPHY, C.J., and ELDRIDGE, RODOWSKY, CHASANOW, KARWACKI, BELL and RAKER, JJ.


MURPHY, Chief Judge.

In this appeal, we must determine whether administrative suspension of a driver's license under Maryland Code (1977, 1992 Repl.Vol., 1994 Cum.Supp.) § 16-205.1 of the Transportation Article constitutes "punishment" within the ambit of the United States Constitution's Double Jeopardy Clause or Maryland common law, thereby precluding the State from bringing a subsequent prosecution for the crime of driving while intoxicated. We hold that a...

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