Court of Special Appeals Says Subsequent Offender Gets Two Strikes, Not Out

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Maryland sentencing courts may not throw away the key with respect to a drug offender whose three strikes include the violation of another state's drug laws, the Court of Special Appeals held yesterday.

While the intermediate appellate court affirmed Marvin Cantine's Baltimore circuit court conviction for conspiracy to possess heroin with the intent to distribute, it remanded his case for re- sentencing on the ground that a prior Virginia drug offense should not have counted as a sentence-enhancing strike.

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Court of Special Appeals Says Subsequent Offender Gets Two Strikes, Not Out

The appeals panel said that Maryland's progressive approach for managing drug offenders leads to the reasonable inference that the legislature purposefully drew a distinction between serving ti...

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