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OGLESBY v. STATE

No. 23, September Term, 2014.

109 A.3d 1147 (2015)

441 Md. 673

Dominik OGLESBY v. STATE of Maryland.

Court of Appeals of Maryland.

February 23, 2015.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Bradford C. Peabody , Assistant Public Defender ( Paul B. DeWolfer Public Defender, Baltimore, MD), on brief, for Appellant.

Cathleen C. Brockmeyer , Asst. Atty. Gen. ( Douglas F. Gansler , Atty. Gen. of Maryland, Baltimore, MD), on brief, for Appellee.

Argued before: BARBERA, C.J., HARRELL, BATTAGLIA, GREENE, ADKINS, McDONALD and WATTS, JJ.

When a court construes a criminal statute, it may invoke a principle known as the "rule of lenity" when the statute is open to more than one interpretation and the court is otherwise unable to determine which interpretation was intended by the Legislature. Instead of arbitrarily choosing one of the competing interpretations, the court...

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