Hawkins v. State

MURPHY, Chief Judge.

This case involves Maryland’s enhanced punishment statute, Maryland Code (1957, 1972 Repl. Vol., 1984 Cum.Supp.) Article 27, § 643B. Subsection (c) of the statute requires the imposition of a mandatory sentence of not less than twenty-five years upon any person who, under specified conditions, is convicted a third time of a “crime of violence.” As originally enacted by ch. 253 of the Acts of 1975, the statute did not include daytime housebreaking as a “crime of violence,” as that term was then defined in § 643B(a). By ch. 479 of the Acts of 1982, effective July 1, 1982,…