Maryland v. Kanaras

ELDRIDGE, Judge.

We issued a writ of certiorari in this case to decide two important issues. First, we must resolve a conflict among this Court’s prior opinions as to whether Maryland Code (1957, 1996 ReplVol.), Art. 27, § 645A(e), precludes an appeal from a final circuit court order ruling upon a motion to correct an allegedly illegal sentence. Second, we must decide whether the Court of Special Appeals correctly held that the petitioner’s sentence of life imprisonment subsequently became “illegal” under the ex post facto prohibition because “actions by the Parole Commission, Commissioner of…