Allen v. State

This case reaches the Court through our grant of a Petition for Writ of Certiorari filed by Ronald Robert Allen (Petitioner) seeking review of a judgment of the Court of Special Appeals finding no error with the evidentiary sufficiency of his conviction of unauthorized use of a motor vehicle under Maryland Code, Criminal Law Article § 7-203 (2002). We also granted the State’s Cross-Petition to consider whether the Maryland Legislature, in the course of its 2002 recodification of the substantive statutory criminal law, focusing particularly on Criminal Law Article (“CL”) § 7-203, added an…