Caldwell Incarceration Case Study

Following a jury trial in the Circuit Court for Prince George’s County, appellant, Robert Eugene Caldwell (“Caldwell”), was convicted of two counts of conspiracy to commit second-degree burglary. The jury, however, acquitted Caldwell of seven other charges. For each of Caldwell’s conspiracy convictions, he received 15 years’ incarceration with all but five years suspended, and five years of supervised probation. On appeal, Caldwell presents three issues for our review, which we rephrase and reorder as follows:
1. Whether the circuit court erred in denying Caldwell’s motions for a mistrial.

2. Whether Caldwell’s challenge to the sufficiency of the evidence sustaining one of his convictions for conspiracy is adequately preserved for appellate

When they arrived, Salam and Snowden exited the vehicle and stole a box truck. Salam and Snowden then drove the box truck to the bay door of the Alkaline Water Company’s portion of the warehouse. Meanwhile, Caldwell parked the blue Toyota Camry in a nearby used car lot where he was to serve as the

Howard County’s led officers into Prince George’s County, in part, due to information obtained from a search warrant. A global position system affixed to one of the defendant’s vehicles, and information gleaned from tracking one of the defendant’s cell phones led Howard County officers to the warehouse. Notably, the specific details involving Howard County’s investigation of Snowden and Caldwell were suppressed, but the State was permitted to elicit testimony indicating that Howard County officers were in Prince George’s County for an investigation. That evening, Detective Puglise was disguised as an electrician in a bucket truck. Detective Puglise testified that he observed Caldwell driving the blue Toyota Camry drive into a parking lot and position itself near a white box truck for approximately three minutes and then drive away. Salam and Snowden, then drove their stolen white box truck and backed it up against the bay door of the Alkaline Water Company. The two breached the water company’s portion of the warehouse and acquired a forklift. Snowden then used the forklift to drive through the shared wall that separated the Alkaline Water Company from Bella Furniture. After breaching Bella Furniture’s portion of the warehouse, an alarm was triggered causing Salam and Snowden to retreat back to Caldwell in the blue Toyota Camry where the three waited for approximately