Stanton v. State

We granted certiorari in this case to consider whether, upon a criminal conviction in a circuit court, the trial judge may legally impose a sentence to run consecutively to an earlier imposed District Court sentence in an unrelated case which is then pending de novo review in the circuit court.

On April 30, 1979, the appellant pleaded guilty in the Circuit Court for Cecil County to forgery. Judge H. Kenneth Mackey accepted the guilty plea and deferred sentence pending receipt of a presentence report. On July 11, 1979, prior to imposition of sentence for the forgery offense, the appellant was…