Powers v. State

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that, following the State's filing of charges in the circuit court, which divested the District Court of jurisdiction over all the defendant's vehicular offenses (including those that otherwise would have been within the sole jurisdiction of the District Court
• where district court divested of jurisdiction over reckless driving charge, conviction in district court was a nullity and further prosecution was permissible

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

11 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Gianiny v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1990-08-14· cited 58×
• State v. Boyd
  Supreme Court of Connecticut· 1992-04-21· cited 37×
• In Re Darren M.
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 2000-02-15· cited 13×
• Fielding v. State
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 2018-07-26· cited 6×
• Harris v. State
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 1992-12-30· cited 4×
• Blackston v. State
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 1992-10-05· cited 2×
• State v. Mailloux
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 2024-03-27
• State v. Mailloux
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 2024-04-02
• Bromberg v. State
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 2025-05-30
• Wittwer v. State
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 2026-05-01
• Covington v. State
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 2026-05-01