38 Md. App. 400 - Carter v. State’s Empirical Analysis

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12 state decisions

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1. ““(a) If any offender or person legally detained and confined in the penitentiary or jail, or house of correction, or reformatory, or station house, or any other place of confinement, in this State, escapes he shall be guilty of a felony and on conviction by the Criminal Court of Baltimore City or by the circuit court of the county in which the escape takes place, be sentenced to confinement in the penitentiary, jail or house of correction for whatever additional period, not exceeding ten years, as the court may adjudge. The sentence so imposed shall be consecutive to the sentence under which the inmate was originally confined and may not be suspended. However, for escapes from ' the Maryland Correctional Institution — Hagerstown or the Maryland Correctional Training Center — Hagerstown or any juvenile institution which have not involved an assault, the sentence may not exceed confinement for three years.” [ 3 ]”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. State v. Rogers

2. “one who assails a legislative classification (on equal protection grounds) must sustain the burden of proving that it does not rest on any reasonable basis....”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. 48 Md. App. 339 - CHARLES CTY. EMPL. LOC. UN. v. Bd. of Educ.

3. “has not overcome the presumptions which favor the constitutionality of a duly enacted statute.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. 48 Md. App. 339 - CHARLES CTY. EMPL. LOC. UN. v. Bd. of Educ.