54 Md. App. 516 - McRoy v. State’s Empirical Analysis

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2 state decisions

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1. “Because the twenty-year sentence was an original sentence and not a resentencing it was within [the court’s] discretion to impose the sentence consecutive to the two other sentences. As the life imprisonment sentence for the first degree rape conviction was no longer valid, the sentence for the second degree rape conviction stood last in the batting order behind the two other life sentences. See State v. White, supra, 41 Md.App. at 518 [ 397 A.2d 299 ].... The twenty-year sentence was not a replacement for the original life sentence imposed for the first degree rape conviction. There was no error committed in the sentencing of appellant. Although the order in which appellant must serve his sentences has been changed, he has not been prejudiced nor has his punishment been enhanced.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. 193 Md. App. 469 - Parker v. State

2. ““A judge must relate the sentence he imposes to the status quo at the moment of sentencing. He may deal with the present or the past as concrete reality. He may make his sentence concurrent with or consecutive to whatever other sentence then exists, either 1) actually being served or 2) in suspension but with ever-present potentiality for the lifting of that suspension.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. 193 Md. App. 469 - Parker v. State