Robinson v. Lee

COLE, Judge.

In this case we are asked to decide whether a sentence, which the trial judge orders to be served “consecutive with sentence now serving,” is to be served consecutively to the aggregate of all preexisting unserved sentences or served consecutively only to the sentence then being served.

We set forth the pertinent criminal history of the defendant in order to place the issue in proper focus. On January 26, 1968, Terry Avon Lee, having been convicted of robbery, was sentenced to prison for five years from that date by Judge Cardin of the Criminal Court of Baltimore. 1 Lee escaped…