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- Title: Maryland v. Rogers
- Author : 378, 426, September Term, 1978 Court of Special Appeals of Maryland Nos. 182
- Release Date : January 03, 1978
- Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
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The appellees in these consolidated appeals escaped from lawful confinement in the Maryland House of Correction at Jessup, Anne Arundel County, Maryland. Each of the appellees was subsequently apprehended, returned to the custody of the Division of Correction, and indicted for the statutory offense of escape. Md. Ann. Code art. 27, § 139 (a). They continued their ""struggle to escape""1 by attacking the escape statute on the ground that it denied equal protection of the law to persons who escaped from any penal institution except those at Hagerstown, Maryland. Two judges of the Circuit Court for Anne Arundel County agreed with the appellees that the statute was unconstitutional and dismissed the indictments. The State, as it is permitted to do when an indictment is dismissed,2 appealed to this Court. On motion, we consolidated all the cases for the purpose of oral argument.