Boffen v. State

BATTAGLIA, Judge.

On November 9, 2000, petitioner Leroy Carl Boffen (hereinafter “Boffen”) appeared in the Circuit Court for Wicomico County to be sentenced on two counts of credit card offenses for unlawfully obtaining goods “by falsely representing, without the consent of the cardholder that he was then and there the holder of a credit card.... ” During the sentencing, the judge stated that, “[t]he sentence under count number one is fifteen years to the Division of Correction.” Before the judge could go any further, Boffen interrupted him, bolted from the courtroom, and ran out onto the…