Legal Opinion
Pete v. State
Court of Appeals of Maryland
Decided December 6, 2004No. 19, September Term, 2004PublishedCited by 54 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
HARRELL, Judge.
We issued a writ of certiorari in this case to explore again the bounds of § 6-221 of the Maryland Criminal Procedure Article of the Maryland Code, which allows a sentencing court discretion to suspend a defendant’s sentence and order probation on “the conditions that the court considers proper.” Md.Code (2001), § 6-221. 1 Our exploration leads us to conclude that the restitution ordered in this case was an illegal sentence and not properly imposed as a condition of probation.
Scott Alan Pete was convicted, after a bench trial in the Circuit Court for Dorchester County, of…
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