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Court of Appeals of Maryland· 12/19/2006

Evans v. State

Citations

  • 914 A.2d 25
  • 396 Md. 256

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  • explaining that the word “a” is construed “as meaning ‘any’ and as not restricted to just one”
  • noting that lethal injection regulations affected inmates who had been sentenced to death and the public at large through its “perception of the process”
  • reasoning that \an individual or an organization `has no standing in court unless he has also suffered some kind of special damage from such wrong differing in character and kind from that suffered by the general public'\
  • reasoning that \an individual or an organization 'has no standing in court unless he has also suffered some kind of special damage from such wrong differing in character and kind from that suffered by the general public’ \
  • observing that subject to constitutional and statutory limitations, State’s Attorneys in Maryland “retain the broad discretion they have historically enjoyed in determining which cases to prosecute, which offenses to charge, and how to prosecute the cases they bring”
  • observing that subject to constitutional and statutory limitations, State’s Attorneys in Maryland “retain the broad discretion they have historically enjoyed in determining which cases to prosecute, which offenses to charge, and how to prosecute the cases they bring”

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Judges: Bell, Raker, Wilner, Harrell, Battaglia, Greene, Rodowsky

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