TAYLOR v. STATE

No. 34, September Term, 1993.

333 Md. 229 (1993)

634 A.2d 1322

DONALD WAYNE TAYLOR v. STATE OF MARYLAND.

Court of Appeals of Maryland.

Mandate Corrected February 3, 1994.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Susan L. Jordan, Asst. Public Defender, (Stephen E. Harris, Public Defender and Nancy S. Forster, Asst. Public Defender) on brief, Baltimore, Nancy S. Forster, Asst. Public Defender (argued), for petitioner.

Annabelle L. Lisic, Asst. Atty. Gen., J. Joseph Curran, Jr., Atty. Gen. of Maryland on brief, Baltimore, for respondent.

Argued before MURPHY, C.J., and ELDRIDGE, RODOWSKY, McAULIFFE, CHASANOW, KARWACKI and ROBERT M. BELL, JJ.


KARWACKI, Judge.

We are asked in this case to construe Maryland Code (1957, 1992 Repl.Vol.), Art. 27, § 643B, a statute prescribing enhanced sentences for habitual perpetrators of certain enumerated crimes of violence.

Donald Wayne Taylor was convicted by a jury in the Circuit Court for Baltimore County of first degree murder, five counts of forgery, and five counts of theft. Taylor had two previous convictions for crimes of violence: in 1984, he pleaded...

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