WALKER v. STATE

No. 1608, September Term, 1981.

53 Md. App. 171 (1982)

452 A.2d 1234

RICKY ARVIN WALKER v. STATE OF MARYLAND.

Court of Special Appeals of Maryland.

Decided December 6, 1982.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

W. Michel Pierson, Assigned Public Defender, for appellant.

Ann E. Singleton, Assistant Attorney General, with whom were Stephen H. Sachs, Attorney General, William A. Swisher, State's Attorney for Baltimore City, and Ara Crowe, Assistant State's Attorney for Baltimore City, on the brief, for appellee.

The cause was argued before MOYLAN and LISS, JJ., and J. FREDERICK SHARER, Associate Judge of the Fourth Judicial Circuit, specially assigned.


MOYLAN, J., delivered the opinion of the Court.

The review of the four convictions in this case is routinely unremarkable; the review of the four sentences, however, presents a series of intriguing problems involving the merger of offenses, the legitimacy of the open-ended common law sentence, the tangled relationship between the common law crime of attempt and the statutory aggravated assaults, and finally the impact of those statutory aggravated assaults upon common...

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