Conaway v. State Johnson v. State

These two cases are decided in a consolidated opinion because of similarities in the flagship question posed in each case - whether the Justice Reinvestment Act of 2016 ("JRA"), as codified, grants probationers found to have committed a technical violation of probation the right to appeal directly to the Court of Special Appeals (versus proceeding by an application for leave to appeal) from a circuit court's order of violation of probation and resulting sentence that exceeds the presumptive limits of incarceration for a technical violation. 1

Petitioner Tomekia Conaway ("Conaway") admitted,…