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Court of Appeals of Maryland· 10/5/1998

Wynn v. State

Citations

  • 718 A.2d 588
  • 351 Md. 307
  • 1998 Md. LEXIS 803

How courts have described this case

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  • holding that the fact that contraband was found “in the house of which [the defendant] was a resident did not prevent the inference” “that he had possession and control” of the contraband
  • holding that the circuit court erroneously admitted evidence of the defendant’s possession of goods stolen in burglaries other than the one for which he was on trial where the defendant did not raise a defense of mistake or accident
  • stating that “[i]t is the objective implausibility of the occurrence, sans nefarious activity, which rebuts the claim of an innocent occurrence”
  • explaining that this Court generally does not address any issue that was not raised in a petition for writ of certiorari or cross-petition granted by the Court
  • noting that the Court has not treated Rule 8-131 (b) as “granting a general discretion to reach an issue whenever the Court so desires in the interests of ‘fairness[,]’ ” and that “ ‘exceptions’ to the principle embodied in Rule 8-131 (b
  • noting that the Court has not treated Rule 8-131(b) as “granting a general discretion to reach an issue whenever the Court so desires in the interests of ‘fairness[,]’” and that “‘exceptions’ to the principle embodied in Rule 8-131(b) are limited to ‘extraordinary circumstances’”

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