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Dean v. State

Citations

  • 600 A.2d 409
  • 325 Md. 230
  • 1992 Md. LEXIS 11

How courts have described this case

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

  • stating that courts “are not required to give requested instructions if the matter is fairly covered by the instructions actually given”
  • stating that courts \are not required to give requested instructions if the matter is fairly covered by the instructions actually given\
  • noting that a “nolle prosequi is simply the prosecution’s abandonment of a charging document count or part of a count” and that it “need not be couched in any particular language or take any specific form’
  • a nolle prosequi “ ‘need not be couched in any particular language or take any specific form; it is the substance of the prosecution’s action which controls’ ”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Judges: Murphy, Eldridge, Rodowsky, McAuliffe, Chasanow, Karwacki, Bell

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