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PURNELL v. STATE

No. 46, Sept. Term, 2000.

827 A.2d 68 (2003)

375 Md. 678

Charles PURNELL v. STATE of Maryland.

Court of Appeals of Maryland.

June 18, 2003.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Margaret L. Lanier, Asst. Public Defender (Stephen E. Harris, Public Defender, on brief), Baltimore, for Petitioner.

Steven L. Holcomb, Asst. Atty. Gen. (J. Joseph Curran, Jr., Atty. Gen. of Maryland, on brief), Baltimore, for Respondent.

Argued before BELL, C.J., and ELDRIDGE, RAKER, WILNER, CATHELL, HARRELL and LAWRENCE F. RODOWSKY (Retired, specially assigned), JJ.

BELL, C.J.

The sole issue presented by this appeal is whether the appropriate unit of prosecution for the common law crime of resisting arrest is determined by the number of police officers a criminal defendant resists during an arrest or, more simply, by the arrest itself.1

During one episode of attempting to elude police custody, Charles Purnell, the petitioner, was charged with two counts of

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