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MASON v. STATE

No. 53, September Term, 1984.

302 Md. 434 (1985)

488 A.2d 955

CORNELIUS MASON v. STATE OF MARYLAND.

Court of Appeals of Maryland.

March 6, 1985.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

George E. Burns, Jr., Asst. Public Defender, Baltimore (Alan H. Murrell, Public Defender, Baltimore, on the brief), for appellant.

Jillyn K. Schulze, Asst. Atty. Gen., Baltimore (Stephen H. Sachs, Atty. Gen., Baltimore, on the brief), for appellee.

Argued before MURPHY, C.J., SMITH, ELDRIDGE, COLE, RODOWSKY and COUCH, JJ., and W. ALBERT MENCHINE, Associate Judge of the Court of Special Appeals (retired), Specially Assigned.

COLE, Judge.

The issue we must decide in this case is whether the double jeopardy protection against successive prosecutions for the same offense bars the appellant's conviction of conspiracy to distribute controlled dangerous substances (CDS).

The facts are not in dispute. On September 16, 1982, Cornelius B. Mason was charged in Baltimore County under two criminal informations (82-CR-3029 and 82-CR-3030) with various CDS offenses that occurred on August 13...

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