Price v. State

RAKER, Judge.

In this case we decide whether daytime housebreaking, a former statutory crime that was abolished in 1994, 1 nevertheless persists as a “crime of violence” under § 441(e) of Article 27, Maryland Code (1957, 1996 Repl. Vol., 2001 Cum. Supp.), 2 for the purpose of imposing mandatory minimum sentences for illegal possession of firearm convictions pursuant to § 449(e) of the same article.

I

On May 17, 2001, Baltimore County police officers arrested Harry Price based upon an outstanding warrant for his arrest in a burglary investigation. Price was traveling in a car driven by his…