Parker v. State

BYRNES, Judge.

Mantice Parker, appellant, was convicted by a jury in the Circuit Court for Baltimore City of second-degree assault, use of a handgun in the commission of a crime of violence, and unlawfully carrying a handgun. After merging the weapons offenses, the lower court sentenced appellant to ten years imprisonment for the assault conviction and a consecutive fifteen-year term for the handgun violation, with all but ten years suspended and the first five years to be served without the possibility of parole.

Appellant presents the following questions for review, which we have rephrased:

I.…