Legal Opinion
Minor v. State
Court of Appeals of Maryland
Decided September 13, 1988No. 98, September Term, 1986PublishedCited by 21 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
COLE, Judge.
At issue in this case is the constitutionality of Kevin Claude Minor’s sentence of twenty-five years in prison without the possibility of parole under Maryland’s habitual *575criminal statute. Minor was sentenced pursuant to Md. Code (1957, 1982 Repl.Vol., 1987 Cum.Supp.) Art. 27, § 643B(c), which provides:
Third conviction of crime of violence.—Any person who (1) has been convicted on two separate occasions of a crime of violence where the convictions do not arise from a single incident, and (2) has served at least one term of confinement in a correctional institution as a result of a…
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