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State v. Ferrell

Citations

  • 545 A.2d 653
  • 313 Md. 291
  • 1988 Md. LEXIS 107

How courts have described this case

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

  • underlying felony a lesser included offense of using a handgun in the commission of a felony
  • “when a common law offense . . . embrac[es] different matters in the disjunctive, a court in applying the required evidence test must examine ‘the alternative elements relevant to the case at hand.’”
  • “[W]hen a common law offense or a criminal statute is multi-purpose, embracing different matters in the disjunctive, a court in applying the required evidence test must examine ‘the alternative elements relevant to the case at hand.’ ” (citations omitted)
  • “when a common law offense . . . embrac[es] different matters in the disjunctive, a court in applying the required evidence test must examine ‘the alternative elements relevant to the case at hand.’”
  • offenses of armed robbery and use of a handgun in the commission of a “crime of violence” robbery, both of which were charged as a result of the same act of robbery with a handgun, are considered the same offense under the required evidence test

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Judges: Eldridge, Cole, Rodowsky, Couch, McAuliffe, Smith, Orth

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