Walczak v. State

ELDRIDGE, Judge.

This case presents two issues. The first is whether a defendant’s failure to object to the imposition of an illegal condition of probation precludes his raising that issue on direct appeal. The second is whether a trial court may order a defendant to pay restitution to a victim of a crime of which the defendant was not convicted.

On June 15, 1981, petitioner Richard Rondy Walczak and three cohorts allegedly entered the residence of Esther Mary Gardner and Judith Lee Martin and there bound and robbed the two women at gunpoint. A Cecil County grand jury presented a fourteen count…