CARDINELL v. STATE

No. 32, September Term, 1992.

335 Md. 381 (1994)

644 A.2d 11

LAURA BETH CARDINELL v. STATE OF MARYLAND.

Court of Appeals of Maryland.

July 14, 1994.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mark Colvin, Asst. Public Defender (Stephen E. Harris, Public Defender and Julia Doyle Bernhardt, Asst. Public Defender, both on brief), Baltimore, for petitioner.

Mary Ann Ince, Asst. Atty. Gen. (J. Joseph Curran, Jr., Atty. Gen., both on brief), Baltimore, for respondent.

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


McAULIFFE, Judge.

This case involves two principal questions: did the trial judge have authority to reduce the defendant's sentence when he did; and if not, did the State have any right to appeal that action to the Court of Special Appeals? The first question is readily answered in the negative; under the facts of this case the trial judge had no authority to modify the sentence. The second question is more difficult, and requires that we examine and trace a common...

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