GRIFFITHS v. STATE

No. 1158, September Term, 1991.

93 Md. App. 125 (1992)

611 A.2d 1025

DORIN GRIFFITHS v. STATE OF MARYLAND.

Court of Special Appeals of Maryland.

September 2, 1992.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Arthur A. DeLano, Jr., Asst. Public Defender (Stephen E. Harris, Public Defender, on the brief), Baltimore, for appellant.

Mary Ann Ince, Asst. Atty. Gen. (J. Joseph Curran, Jr., Atty. Gen., and Stuart O. Simms, State's Atty. for Baltimore City, on the brief), Baltimore, for appellee.

Submitted before WILNER, C.J., and MOYLAN and ALPERT, JJ.


WILNER, Chief Judge.

A person is entitled not to be twice placed in jeopardy for the same offense. That right, in Maryland, derives from two different sources — the Fifth Amendment to the United States Constitution, applicable to the States through the "due process" clause of the Fourteenth Amendment, and Maryland common law. For good or ill, unlike most due process rights finding expression in both Federal and Maryland law, the respective prohibitions against...

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