Muir v. State

MURPHY, Chief Judge.

Maryland’s enhanced punishment statute for repeat offenders, Maryland Code (1982 Repl. Vol., 1985 Cum. Supp.), Article 27, § 643B requires, in subsection (c), the imposition of a mandatory sentence of not less than twenty-five years upon any person who, under specified conditions, is convicted a third time of a “crime of violence.” Subsection (a) of the statute defines a “crime of violence” to encompass a number of specified offenses, all of which include force or *211threat against persons or property, including robbery, burglary, rape, sexual offenses in the first or second…