WILLIAMS v. STATE

No. 37, Sept. Term, 2021.

272 A.3d 347 (2022)

478 Md. 99

Nicholas Jabbar WILLIAMS v. STATE of Maryland.

Court of Appeals of Maryland.

March 25, 2022.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Argued by J. Alejandro Barrientos and Kevin B. Collins ( Alexander Levin , Covington & Burling LLP, Washington, DC), on brief, for Petitioner.

Argued by Derek Simmonsen , Asst. Atty. Gen. ( Brian E. Frosh , Atty. Gen. of Maryland, Annapolis, MD), on brief, for Respondent.

Argued before: Getty, C.J., McDonald, Watts, Hotten, Booth, Biran, and Alan M. Wilner (Senior Judge, Specially Assigned), JJ.


Maryland case law establishes that verdicts can be inconsistent in two ways—legally and factually. In a criminal case, verdicts are legally inconsistent where a defendant is convicted of an offense but acquitted of another offense that has the same elements as the offense of which the defendant was convicted. See McNeal...

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