Montone v. State

COLE, Judge.

At issue in this case is the propriety of Santo Louis Montone’s sentence to life imprisonment without possibility of parole under Maryland’s habitual criminal statute. The statute reads in pertinent part: “Any person who has served three separate terms of confinement in a correctional institution as a result of three separate convictions of any crime of violence shall be sentenced, on being convicted a fourth time of a crime of violence, to life imprisonment without the possibility of parole.” Md.Ann.Code art. 27, *602§ 643B(b) (1957, 1982 Repl.Vol., 1986 Cum.Supp.). We set forth the…