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State v. Garner

Citations

  • 601 A.2d 142
  • 90 Md. App. 392
  • 1992 Md. App. LEXIS 35

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  • holding that, following the defendant's demand for jury trial, which divested the District Court of jurisdiction over all his traffic offenses, his payment of a traffic fine 17 to the District Court was of no legal effect
  • where the defendant sought to avoid more serious charge by pleading guilty to lesser charges, court stated that double jeopardy “was never intended to be a sword with which a defendant could opportunistically manipulate or disrupt proper charges properly filed against him”
  • where the defendant sought to avoid more serious charge by pleading guilty to lesser charges, court stated that double jeopardy \was never intended to be a sword with which a defendant could opportunistically manipulate or disrupt proper charges properly filed against him\
  • where the court held that even if initial jeopardy had occurred when the defendant paid a fine on one of the five charges that were consolidated for trial, the termination of jeopardy on the single charge had no double jeopardy effect on the remaining pending charges

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Judges: Moylan, Bishop and Fischer

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