Babbitt 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 the circuit court had no authority to appoint counsel for the State to initiate prosecution because the court is not authorized “to assume the State’s Attorney’s constitutional power to determine when and if to prosecute”
• holding that the circuit court had no authority to appoint counsel for the State to initiate prosecution because the court is not authorized “to assume the State’s Attorney’s constitutional power to determine when and if to prosecute”
• counsel appointed under CJ §2-102 may not initiate a criminal prosecution by filing a criminal information
• counsel appointed under CJ § 2-102 may not initiate a criminal prosecution by filing a criminal information

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

8 cases in this archive cite this case.

• State v. Romulus
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1989-03-30· cited 30×
• Wynn v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 2005-08-11· cited 26×
• Syed v. Lee
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 2024-08-30· cited 5×
• Young v. State
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 1982-10-07· cited 3×
• (1999)
  Maryland Attorney General Reports· 1999-05-24
• (2011)
  Maryland Attorney General Reports· 2011-10-05
• Reddick v. State
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 2024-10-31
• Maryland Attorney General Opinion 96 OAG 076
  Maryland Attorney General Reports· 2011-10-05

Cites

5 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Ayre v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1981-08-31· cited 64×
• State v. Moulden
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1982-02-24· cited 47×
• Food Fair Stores, Inc. v. Joy
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1978-07-17· cited 29×
• Hooper v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1982-03-24· cited 29×
• State v. Ensor and Compton
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1976-05-05· cited 12×