68 Md. App. 581 - Davis v. State’s Empirical Analysis

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11 state decisions

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1. “(a) “Crime of violence".—As used in this section, the term “crime of violence” means abduction; arson; burglary; daytime housebreaking under § 30(b) of this article; kidnapping; manslaughter, except involuntary manslaughter; mayhem and maiming under §§ 384, 385, and 386 of this article; murder; rape; robbery; robbery with a deadly weapon; sexual offense in the first degree; sexual offense in the second degree; use of a handgun in the commission of a felony or other crime of violence; an attempt to commit any of the aforesaid offenses; assault with intent to murder; and assault with intent to rape. The term “correctional institution” includes Patuxent Institution and a local or regional jail or detention center. (b) Mandatory life sentence.—Any person who has served three separate terms of confinement in a correctional institution as a result of three separate convictions of any crime of violence shall be sentenced, on being convicted a fourth time of a crime of violence, to life imprisonment without the possibility of parole. Regardless of any other law to the contrary, the provisions of this section are mandatory. (c) Third conviction of crime of violence.—Any person who (1) has been convicted on two separate occasions of a crime of violence where the convictions do not arise from a single incident, and (2) has served at least one term of confinement in a correctional institution as a result of a conviction of a crime of violence, shall be sentenced, on being convicted a thi”

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

2. “Keeping in mind, then, that only from four to six other states would impose a sentence upon Davis identical to the one he received in Maryland, and at least forty-four other jurisdictions would not, we conclude that the sentence does not meet this third criterion. [Davis v. State, supra, 68 Md.App. at 594 , 514 A.2d at 1235-36 (footnote omitted).]”

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

3. “unlawfully did break the dwelling house of the said Complainant, at the aforesaid location, with intent to steal ... contrary to the form of the Act of Assembly in such case made and provided ... (Art. 27, Sec. 30b).”

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