State v. Oliver

CHARLES E. ORTH, Jr., Associate Judge of the Court of Appeals (retired)

Specially Assigned.

Harrison Oliver, also known as Harrison Lee Oliver, III, 1 Danny Lee Oliver, Ralph Ray Kolb and Irene Katherine Kolb had a common complaint. They believed that the Circuit Court for Carroll County erred in imposing, as to each of them, consecutive periods of probation which in the aggregate were in excess of five years. 2 They took their complaint to the Court of Special Appeals by way of direct appeals. That court shared their belief. It held that the sentencing judge erred when he imposed consecutive…