Blandon v. State

COUCH, Judge.

William Blandón, appellant, was convicted of attempted rape in the second degree on January 11, 1984 in the Circuit Court for Baltimore City. Pursuant to Maryland Code (1957, 1982 Repl.Vol., 1984 Cum.Supp.), Art. 27, § 643B(c), 1 he was sentenced to twenty-five years imprisonment without possibility of parole. 2 The Court of Special Appeals affirmed his conviction and sentence in Blandon v. State, 60 Md.App. 582, 483 A.2d 1320 (1984). We granted Blandon’s petition for a writ of certiorari to eliminate yet another alleged ambiguity .arising under Maryland’s enhanced penalty…