Taylor v. State

On what was labeled an Agreed Statement of Facts, petitioner, Shanquon Taylor, was convicted in the Circuit Court for Prince George’s County of second degree rape and second degree assault and sentenced to an aggregate of seven years in prison, all but three years of which was suspended. The Court of Special Appeals affirmed the judgment, and we granted certiorari to consider three issues: (1) whether the trial court acted properly in rendering a verdict on what was actually a statement of stipulated evidence that contained a significant dispute of material fact requiring, for its resolution,…