State v. Cardinell

BISHOP, Judge.

The State appeals from an order of the Circuit Court for Garrett County that suspended appellee Laura B. Cardinell’s sentence for narcotics offenses to time served and placed her on supervised probation for a period of three years.

The State presents the following issue:

Whether the circuit court erred when it purported to modify Cardinell’s sentence after it lost revisory power over the sentence and when it failed to make the purported modification on the record in open court?

We hold that the circuit court erred in both respects. We discuss whether a trial court has authority to…