Monoker v. State

How courts have described this case

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• deciding whether the common law offense of solicitation merged into the common law offense of conspiracy under the required evidence test
• deciding whether the common law offense of solicitation merged into the common law offense of conspiracy under the required evidence test
• indicating that the rule of lenity applies where both offenses are statutory in nature or where one offense is statutory and the other is a derivative of common law
• noting that, in cases where two offenses do not merge under the required evidence test, “there are nevertheless times when the offenses will not be punished separately”
• pointing out that the rule of lenity is applicable where both offenses are statutory or where one offense is statutory and the other is a common law crime
• noting in Maryland “no overt act in furtherance of the agreement is necessary” to form a conspiracy

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).