Commonwealth v. Ramos

OPINION

Justice STEVENS.

This appeal questions whether the imposition of a five-year mandatory minimum prison sentence pursuant to 42 Pa.C.S. § 9712.1 violates Pennsylvania’s indeterminate sentencing scheme set forth in 42 Pa.C.S. § 9756(b), when the maximum sentence for a conviction under 35 P.S. § 780-113(f)(2) is also five years.

Facts

On October 23, 2009, officers with the Allentown Police Department and the Le-high County Drug Task Force executed a search warrant at the residence of Guillermo Ramos (hereinafter “Ramos”) where they found Ramos and a female in a bedroom asleep in a bed. N.T.…