77 Md. App. 338 - Hawkins v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1988
Citation profile
25 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 25 later decisions — most recently December 2010 · most notably 87 Md. App. 420 - In Re Montrail M. (1991), Anderson v. State (2005)
25 state decisions
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Relationships
Relies on Jackson v. Virginia · Illinois v. Gates · Blockburger v. United States · United States v. Mendenhall · Michigan v. Chesternut
Most-quoted passages
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“.... [T]hese two crimes spawned from separate acts[.] Officer Hobbs’[s] surveillance of [Hawkins] gave rise to [Hawkins’s] conviction for distribution of a controlled dangerous substance.....The distribution was completed. As Officer Ferdock attempted to arrest [Hawkins] a moment later, [Hawkins] discarded a baggie containing a quantity of drugs sufficient to give rise to an inference of an attempt to distribute. As was stated succinctly by the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit, “[w]hen an individual possesses an amount of [a controlled dangerous substance] that could result in a future distribution, and when the same individual also distributes another quantity of [the controlled dangerous substance], he is punishable for both possession and distribution.” United States v. Carter, 576 F.2d 1061, 1064 (3rd Cir.1978). Therefore, the trial court did not err in refusing to merge the convictions for possession with intent to distribute a controlled dangerous substance and distribution of a controlled dangerous substance.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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