Jones v. State

The majority today holds that when a defendant is convicted of three crimes of violence arising out of a single incident and all three convictions qualify as his third crime of violence conviction, a sentencing judge has discretion to impose the sentence mandated by Maryland Code (1957, 1992 Repl. Vol.) Article 27, § 643B(e) (the “section 643B(c) sentence”), with respect to any of the three qualifying convictions. It justifies that result by reasoning, where imposing the section 643B(c) sentence to each of the qualifying convictions would result in different sentences, the sentencing judge is…