32 Md. App. 515 - Raley v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1976
Citation profile
24 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 24 later decisions — most recently December 1993
24 state decisions
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Relationships
Relies on Dorsey v. State · Henry v. State · Gleaton v. State · Apple v. State · Heath v. State
Most-quoted passages
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“[The appellant] is next charged—he is next charged with an assault with intent to avoid lawful apprehension by Officer Magruder. And in that regard I will read you what the charge is. And this charge says, according to your legislature, that if any person shall unlawfully shoot at any person, or shall in any manner unlawfully and maliciously attempt to discharge any kind of loaded arms at any person with the intention to prevent the lawful apprehension or detainer of any party for any offense, for which the said party may be legally apprehended, that person shall be guilty of a felony. If you are convinced beyond a reasonable doubt that on May the 2nd Mr. Sangster shot at Officer Magruder, and his intention was not to let him serve this search warrant on those premises, and you’re convinced of this beyond a reasonable doubt, you will accordingly find him guilty of this offense. If you’re not convinced beyond a reasonable doubt that they have proven what I have just told you, you will accordingly find him not guilty of this offense. In regards to Officer Magruder, the last offense that he is charged with is the use of a handgun in the commission of a crime of violence. And in this regard, I instruct you as a matter of law that our legislature has said that any person who shall use a handgun in the commission of any felony or any crime of violence, as defined in another part of this code, shall be guilty of a separate misdemeanor. And assault has been, with certain ramification”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority““[T]he imposition of sentence in a criminal case is a matter within the province of the trial judge, Gleaton v. State, 235 Md. 271, 277 (1964); Reid v. State, 200 Md. 89, 92 (1952), cert. denied, 344 U. S. 848 (1952). And if the sentence is within the limits prescribed by law, it ordinarily may not be reviewed on appeal. Gleaton v. State, supra; Biles v. State, 230 Md. 537, 538 (1964).””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“The only limitation upon the number of years of imprisonment to which one may be sentenced for assault is, ordinarily, the prohibition against cruel and unusual punishment contained in the Eighth Amendment to the United States Constitution and Article 16 and 25 of the Maryland Declaration of Rights.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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