Brendoff v. State

Panel: Fader, C.J., Leahy, Friedman, JJ.

Leahy, J.

*97 Moving prisoners from prison beds to treatment beds was one of the galvanizing objectives of Maryland's Justice Reinvestment Act ( "JRA"). 1 2016 Md. Laws, ch. 515. 2 In keeping with this objective, the JRA established presumptive incarceration *742 limits for technical violations of probation. Maryland Code (2001, 2008 Repl. Vol., 2017 Supp.), 3 *98 Criminal Procedure Article ("CP"), § 6-223. However, non-technical violations of probation, such as "absconding," still remain subject to the court's power to revoke probation and impose sentences that…