B. SIFRIT v. State

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• holding that a proffer based on one theory of admitting evidence did not preserve more detailed, and perhaps meritorious, theory
• noting that \[t]he crime of murder in Maryland remains a common law offense\
• declining to require \trial courts to imagine all reasonable offshoots of the argument actually presented before them before making a ruling.\
• the jury is “free to believe some, all, or none of the evidence presented”
• “[T]he use of a firearm . . . is not required for second-degree murder.”
• “A due process violation does not exist in a situation involving multiple trials based upon a single crime transaction, unless the prosecutor presents inconsistent theories and the inconsistency exists at the core, not the margins, of the ... State’s case”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).