Burrell v. State

How courts have described this case

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

• uphold-ing State’s decision to nolle pros a simple robbery charge because the only rational inference, in light of evidence that defendant had employed a deadly weapon, was that defendant committed an armed robbery
• upholding State's decision to nolle pros a simple robbery charge because the only rational inference, in light of evidence that defendant had employed a deadly weapon, was that defendant committed an armed robbery
• “In considering whether an entry of nolle prosequi to a lesser included offense is unfair to the defendant, . . . the evidence must . . . be such that the jury could rationally convict only on the lesser included offense.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

10 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Ball v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1997-09-10· cited 121×
• Burch v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1997-07-03· cited 112×
• Thomas v. State
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 1999-09-13· cited 21×
• State v. Bowers
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1998-05-20· cited 16×
• State v. Simms
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 2017-12-18· cited 12×
• Henry v. State
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 2009-02-04· cited 11×
• Bass v. State
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 2012-06-28· cited 10×
• State v. Smith
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 2015-05-27· cited 4×
• (1999)
  Maryland Attorney General Reports· 1999-05-24
• State v. Fabien
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 2023-09-05

Cites

10 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• United States v. Batchelder
  Supreme Court· 1979-06-04· cited 1,568×
• Keeble v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1973-05-29· cited 1,048×
• Hook v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1989-02-13· cited 124×
• Ward v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1981-04-07· cited 93×
• Crawford v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1979-07-19· cited 54×
• Gonzales v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1991-02-08· cited 25×
• Jackson v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1991-02-25· cited 24×
• Whittlesey v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1992-05-13· cited 24×
• Fairbanks v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1989-12-06· cited 21×
• Jackson v. State
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 1990-05-01· cited 10×