186 Md. App. 320 - Gross v. State’s Empirical Analysis

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2 district · 15 state decisions

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1. “Is an agreement by the sentencing judge, the defendant and the prosecutor as to what the maximum sentence will be if the plea is accepted. In the subject case, the ABA plea agreement specified the exact sentence that would be imposed. In some ABA plea agreements, however, the judge, prosecutor and the defendant simply agree that if the plea is accepted the sentence imposed will not exceed a specified number of days or years.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 217 Md. App. 299 - Bonilla v. State

2. “Technically, appellant did not have a right to appeal “his sentence” as he was told on the date sentence was imposed. He had a right to file a[n] [application] seeking leave to appeal the conviction and sentence. Holmes, 401 Md. at 445-46 [ 932 A.2d 698 ]. Moreover, at no point was he told that he had thirty days to file a[n] [application] for leave to appeal.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 198 Md. App. 633 - State v. CASTELLON-GUTIERREZ

3. “[W]e have never held that the judge must himself explain the elements of each charge to the defendant on the record. Rather, the constitutional prerequisites of a valid plea may be satisfied where the record accurately reflects that the nature of the charge and the elements of the crime were explained to the defendant by his [or her] own, competent counsel.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Tate v. State