ROBERT GARRETT, SR. v. STATE OF MARYLAND

Daily Record Staff//January 11, 2021//

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Criminal procedure — Illegal sentence — Life sentence

In 1983, a jury in the Circuit Court for Harford County found Robert Lee Garrett, Sr., appellant, guilty of first-degree murder, use of a handgun in the commission of a felony, and unlawfully carrying and transporting a handgun. The court sentenced him for the murder to “the Division of Correction for the term of your natural life.” The court sentenced him to a total of 18 years for the handgun offenses, to run consecutively to the life sentence. On direct appeal, this Court affirmed the convictions. Garrett v. State, No. 1241, September Term, 1984 (filed April 30, 1985). In 2018, Mr. Garrett, representing himself, filed a Rule 4-345(a) motion to correct an illegal sentence in which he challenged the life sentence for murder.

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