State v. Green

BELL, Chief Judge.

In this case, we must determine whether the State may appeal, either pursuant to a common law right of appeal or as a result of Maryland Code (1976, 1998 Repl.Vol.) § 12-302(c) of the Courts and Judicial Proceedings Article,1 the granting, *66by the Circuit Court for Prince George’s County, of a criminal defendant’s untimely filed motion to revise his statutorily mandated sentence. We shall hold that the State does not have a common law right to appeal a criminal sentence, in the process overruling our decision in Cardinell v. State, 335 Md. 381, 644 A.2d 11 (1994), but that…