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Criminal Law Keyed to Kennedy
Christopher C. Owens, Jr. v. State of Maryland
Citation:
93 Md. App. 162 (1992)
ProfessorScott Caron
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The defendant was convicted of driving while intoxicated based upon circumstantial evidence alone. He was found behind the wheel of a parked car on a private driveway at night while intoxicated. At his trial, the State presented only one witness – the trooper who found him. He testified that he spotted the defendant’s truck after receiving a call about a suspicious vehicle. He found the defendant asleep in the truck, with an open can of beer between his legs and multiple other empty beer cans next to him. The defendant refused to submit to a blood test for alcohol, but the trooper testified that he was very argumentative, unclear, and had slurred speech.
The defendant did not testify at trial and no other witnesses or evidence was presented. He appealed his conviction, arguing that the evidence was not legally sufficient to support such a finding.
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