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STATE v. SAYRE

No. 21, September Term, 1988.

314 Md. 559 (1989)

552 A.2d 553

STATE OF MARYLAND v. ROBERT THOMAS SAYRE, JR.

Court of Appeals of Maryland.

January 23, 1989.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Richard B. Rosenblatt, Asst. Atty. Gen. (J. Joseph Curran, Jr., Atty. Gen., both on brief) Baltimore, for petitioner.

Michael R. Braudes, Asst. Public Defender (Alan H. Murrell, Public Defender, both on brief) Baltimore, for respondent.

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

ADKINS, Judge.

Under Maryland Rule 4-345(b), a "court may modify or reduce or strike, but may not increase the length of, a sentence" once sentence has been imposed. [Emphasis supplied.] The question before us is: when is a sentence deemed to be imposed for purposes of the rule's prohibition against increase? Under the circumstances of this case, we shall hold that an increase in the length of sentence was impermissible.

Robert Thomas Sayre, Jr. (Sayre...

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