JONES v. STATE

No. 17, September Term, 1986.

307 Md. 449 (1986)

514 A.2d 1219

DARRYL GENE JONES v. STATE OF MARYLAND.

Court of Appeals of Maryland.

September 30, 1986.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Nancy S. Forster, Asst. Public Defender (Alan H. Murrell, Public Defender, on brief), Baltimore, for appellant.

Valerie V. Cloutier, Asst. Atty. Gen. (Stephen H. Sachs, Atty. Gen., on brief), Baltimore, for appellee.

Argued before MURPHY, C.J., and ELDRIDGE, COLE, RODOWSKY, COUCH, McAULIFFE and ADKINS, JJ.


ADKINS, Judge.

In 1973, the General Assembly enacted § 12-702(b) of the Courts and Judicial Proceedings Art.1 The statutory language that contains the subsection's strict limitations on sentence increases in criminal cases was adopted almost verbatim from certain language in North Carolina v. Pearce, 395 U.S. 711, 89 S.Ct. 2072, 23 L.Ed.2d 656 (1969). Briggs v. State, 289...

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