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SCOTT v. STATE

No. 91, Sept. Term, 2016.

164 A.3d 177 (2017)

454 Md. 146

Theodore SCOTT v. STATE of Maryland

Court of Appeals of Maryland.

July 10, 2017.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Argued by Jeffrey M. Ross , Assistant Public Defender ( Paul B. DeWolfe , Public Defender of Maryland of Baltimore, MD), on brief, for Petitioner.

Argued by Virginia S. Hovermill , Assistant Attorney General ( Brian E. Frosh , Attorney General of Maryland of Baltimore, MD), on brief, for Respondent.

Argued before Barbera, C.J., Greene, Adkins, McDonald, Watts, Hotten, and Getty, JJ.

Both the Fifth Amendment to the Constitution of the United States and the common law of Maryland provide for a prohibition on double jeopardy. A plea of autrefois acquit is a common-law plea in which a defendant alleges to have been previously acquitted of an offense, and, as a result, that he or she may not be tried again.

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