State v. Sayre

ADKINS, Judge.

Under Maryland Rule 4-345(b), a “court may modify or reduce or strike, but may not increase the length of, a sentence” once sentence has been imposed. [Emphasis supplied.] The question before us is: when is a sentence deemed to be imposed for purposes of the rule’s prohibition against increase? Under the circumstances of this case, we shall hold that an increase in the length of sentence was impermissible. '

Robert Thomas Sayre, Jr. (Sayre), an inmate at the Roxbury Correctional Institution/in Hagerstown, violated institutional rules when he used a homemade “fishing line” to…