WEST v. STATE

No. 3025, Sept. Term, 1999.

764 A.2d 345 (2000)

136 Md. App. 141

Michael Lawrence WEST v. STATE of Maryland.

Court of Special Appeals of Maryland.

December 28, 2000.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John L. Kopolow, Asst. Public Defender and Mitra K. Battan, Law Student (Rule 16) (Stephen E. Harris, Public Defender, on the brief), Baltimore, for Appellant.

Rachel Marblestone Kamins, Asst. Atty. Gen. (J. Joseph Curran, Jr., Atty. Gen., Baltimore and Jack Johnson, State's Atty. for Prince George's County, Upper Marlboro, on the brief), for Appellee.

Argued before MURPHY, C.J., THIEME, and SONNER, JJ.


SONNER, Judge.

The present case requires this Court to address the issue of territorial jurisdiction between two sovereign governments. Appellant, Michael Lawrence West, claims the State of Maryland was without jurisdiction to prosecute him for the same criminal acts for which he was convicted in Washington, D.C. several months earlier. In furtherance of this claim, appellant raises the following four questions:

(1) Was the evidence legally insufficient to...

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