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Scott v. State

Citations

  • 840 A.2d 715
  • 379 Md. 170
  • 2004 Md. LEXIS 1

How courts have described this case

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

  • concluding that no hearing was required under Rule 4-345, where the court did not intend to modify, reduce, correct, or vacate the sentence
  • holding that the rule of lenity applies to ambiguous pronouncements
  • providing that a trial court judge’s ruling on a matter is generally not bound by the prior ruling of another judge on the trial court on the same case
  • stating that a decision by one circuit court judge is not binding on another circuit court judge because the two judges are “ ‘colleague[s] of coordinate jurisdiction.’ (quoting Stewart v. State, 319 Md. 81, 91, 570 A.2d 1229 (1990)
  • reviewing whether the “law of the case” doctrine applied to judges on the same trial court under a de novo standard
  • affirming correction of commitment record under Rule 4-351(a) and concluding that no hearing was required under Rule 4-345, where the court did not intend to modify, reduce, correct, or vacate the sentence

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Judges: Bell, Raker, Wilner, Cathell, Harrell, Battaglia, Eldridge, John

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