Khalifa v. State

How courts have described this case

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• observing that additional reasons for merger include “historical treatment, judicial decisions which generally hold that offenses merge, and fairness”
• observing that additional reasons for merger include “historical treatment, judicial decisions which generally hold that offenses merge, and fairness”
• holding the rule of lenity only applies when “both offenses are statutory in nature or where one offense is statutory and the other is a derivative of common law”
• declining to merge convictions for abduction of a child and detention of a child, as statutorily discrete offenses, and likewise declining to merge detention and conspiracy convictions, seeing no “statutory ambiguity” that would compel merger
• “The Ex Post Facto Clauses of the United States Constitution and Maryland Declaration of Rights have been viewed generally to have the ‘same meaning’ and are thus to be construed in pari, materia.”
• “The Ex Post Facto Clauses of the United States Constitution and Maryland Declaration of Rights have been viewed generally to have the ‘same meaning’ and are thus to be construed in pari materia.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).