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JOHNSON v. STATE

No. 5, Sept. Term, 1999.

749 A.2d 769 (2000)

358 Md. 384

Steve JOHNSON v. STATE of Maryland.

Court of Appeals of Maryland.

April 12, 2000.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Michael R. Braudes, Asst. Public Defender (Stephen E. Harris, Public Defender, on brief), Baltimore, for petitioner.

M. Jennifer Landis, Asst. Atty. Gen. (J. Joseph Curran, Jr., Atty. Gen. of Maryland, on brief), Baltimore, for respondent.

Argued before BELL, C.J., and ELDRIDGE, RODOWSKY, RAKER, WILNER, CATHELL and ROBERT L. KARWACKI (Retired, Specially Assigned), JJ.

ELDRIDGE, Judge.

We granted a petition for a writ of certiorari in this case to decide if the Circuit Court for Talbot County erred in allowing the State to amend a criminal information, charging violations of the controlled dangerous substances laws, by substituting "cocaine" for "marijuana" when the defendant did not consent to the amendment.

I.

The petitioner, Steve Eugene Johnson, was arrested on June 20, 1997, by Officer Mark Waltrup of the...

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