YONGA v. STATE

No. 2441, September Term, 2013.

108 A.3d 448 (2015)

221 Md. App. 45

Sam YONGA v. STATE of Maryland.

Court of Special Appeals of Maryland.

January 28, 2015.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

William M. Ferris (Krause & Ferris, on the brief), Annapolis, MD, for appellant.

Carrie J. Williams ( Douglas F. Gansler , Atty. Gen., on the brief), Baltimore, MD, for appellee.

Panel: WOODWARD, KEHOE, CHARLES E. MOYLAN, JR. (Retired, Specially Assigned), JJ.


Non-proof of guilt is by no means proof of innocence. There is a critical, albeit widely neglected, distinction in the criminal law between the status of being procedurally not guilty and the far rarer status of being factually innocent. The presumption of innocence, notwithstanding its grand mellifluence, is simply a package of procedural...

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