Legal Opinion
Beatty v. State
Court of Special Appeals of Maryland
Decided December 14, 1983No. 179, 366, September Term, 1983PublishedCited by 6 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
GILBERT, Chief Judge.
These appeals, which we have consolidated in one opinion, stem from the kidnapping, rape and murder of Stephanie Ann Roper. The backlash of the sentences imposed for the crimes continues to reverberate in the halls of criminal tribunals throughout the State. The sentences meted to Jerry Lee Beatty and Jack Ronald Jones have led to these similar appeals.
Beatty entered into a plea bargain with the State’s Attorney for St. Mary’s County, in which County Miss Roper’s assailants were initially charged. In exchange for Beatty’s guilty plea to the crimes of murder in the first…
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