STATE v. TAYLOR

Nos. 124, September Term, 2000, 6, September Term 2002.

810 A.2d 964 (2002)

371 Md. 617

STATE of Maryland v. Donald TAYLOR, Jr. Larry Bledsoe, George Kopp, and Joseph Johnson v. State of Maryland.

Court of Appeals of Maryland.

November 12, 2002.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Kathryn Grill Graeff, Assistant Attorney General, Gary Bair, Solicitor General (J. Joseph Curran, Jr., Attorney General of Maryland, on brief), for appellant.

John L. Kopolow, Assistant Public Defender, Nancy S. Forster, Deputy Public Defender (Stephen E. Harris, Public Defender, on brief), for appellee.

Argued before BELL, C.J., ELDRIDGE, RAKER, WILNER, CATHELL, HARRELL and ROBERT L. KARWACKI, (retired, specially assigned), JJ.


HARRELL, J.

In these cases, consolidated for the purpose of this decision, we again consider the scope of double jeopardy protections under Maryland common law. Specifically, we decide whether jeopardy attaches in a proceeding where a trial judge grants a pretrial motion to dismiss based on a finding of insufficiency of evidentiary facts beyond those contained within the "four corners" of the charging document, i.e., criminal indictment or criminal information.

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