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- Title: Purnell v. State
- Author : Reported In the Court of Appeals of Maryland
- Release Date : January 18, 2003
- Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 69 KB
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The sole issue presented by this appeal is whether the appropriate unit of prosecution for the common law crime of resisting arrest is determined by the number of police officers a criminal defendant resists during an arrest or, more simply, by the arrest itself. 1 During one episode of attempting to elude police custody, Charles Purnell, the petitioner, was charged with two counts of resisting arrest: one count for each of the two officers attempting to arrest him. The petitioner was also charged, inter alia, with two counts of second degree assault, 2 again one count for each police officer. Following a bench trial, the Circuit Court for Baltimore City convicted the petitioner of both counts of resisting arrest and both counts of assault and, subsequently, imposed, as to each conviction, a ten-year term of incarceration, with all but two years suspended, to be served concurrently. In an unreported opinion, the Court of Special Appeals affirmed those judgments. This Court granted the petitioner's Petition for Writ of Certiorari. Purnell v. State, 359 Md. 668, 755 A.2d 1139 (2000). Because we conclude that it is inappropriate to determine the unit of prosecution for the crime of resisting arrest by reference to the number of law enforcement officers resisted, or by the number of officers put at risk by the resistance, we shall reverse the judgment of the intermediate appellate court and order that one of the petitioner's convictions for resisting arrest be vacated. I.
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