Webster v. State

BELL, Chief Judge.

The issue this case presents involves the State’s right to appeal a trial court’s reduction of a mandatory sentence, entered pursuant to Maryland Code (1957, 1992 RepLVol., 1993 Cum.Supp.) Art. 27, § 6436(a), 1 which, at the time of sentencing, included daytime housebreaking in the list of predicate crimes of violence, when, at the time of the reduction, that statute had been amended to delete that offense as a predicate offense. Important, if not critical to the resolution of that issue, is the propriety of the trial court’s action. Rejecting the State’s contention that it…