United States Fourth Circuit

The district court's grant of habeas relief on double-jeopardy grounds to defendant is reversed where first-degree assault and reckless endangerment are not the same offense for double-jeopardy purposes.

Appellate Information

• Decided 12/02/2004
• Published 12/02/2004

Judges

• Before WILLIAMS and TRAXLER, Circuit Judges, and Pasco M. BOWMAN, Senior Circuit Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit, sitting by designation.

Court

• United States Fourth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• ARGUED:Mary Ann Rapp Ince, Assistant Attorney General, Office of the Attorney General of Maryland, Baltimore, Maryland, for Appellants.   Justin Sanjeeve Antonipillai, Arnold & Porter, L.L.P., Washington, D.C., for Appellee.   ON BRIEF:  J. Joseph Curran, Jr., Attorney General of Maryland, Baltimore, Maryland, for Appellants.  Robyn M. Holtzman, Susan L. Lyndrup, Geoffrey J. Michael, Kathryn E. Taylor, Arnold & Porter, L.L.P., Washington, D.C., for Appellee.