Young v. State

Police watched Young (defendant) drive past several recently robbed banks in a manner suggesting he was casing them. At one bank, he put on an eyepatch, surgical gloves, a turned-up collar, sunglasses, and a knit cap pulled low, then clipped a police scanner to his belt and walked toward the bank with one hand in his jacket pocket and the other shielding his face, ducking his head as he went. He tried the door, found it locked, and quickly drove away — at which point police arrested him. He was convicted of attempted robbery and appealed, arguing the evidence of intent wasn't compelling.

Whether, in Maryland, a person is guilty of an attempt to commit a crime where he purposely does or omits to do anything which, under the circumstances as he believes them to be, constitutes a substantial step in a course of conduct planned to culminate in the crime.