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STANTON v. STATE

[No. 72, September Term, 1980.]

290 Md. 245 (1981)

428 A.2d 1224

JAMES ERNEST STANTON v. STATE OF MARYLAND

Court of Appeals of Maryland.

Decided May 4, 1981.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John W. Sause, Jr., District Public Defender, for appellant.

Submitted on brief by Stephen H. Sachs, Attorney General, and Stephen Rosenbaum, Assistant Attorney General, for appellee.

The cause was argued before MURPHY, C.J., and SMITH, DIGGES, ELDRIDGE, COLE, DAVIDSON and RODOWSKY, JJ.

MURPHY, C.J., delivered the opinion of the Court.

We granted certiorari in this case to consider whether, upon a criminal conviction in a circuit court, the trial judge may legally impose a sentence to run consecutively to an earlier imposed District Court sentence in an unrelated case which is then pending de novo review in the circuit court.

On April 30, 1979, the appellant pleaded guilty in the Circuit Court for...

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