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LOUIS PIERRE EASTER v. STATE OF MARYLAND

LOUIS PIERRE EASTER v. STATE OF MARYLAND

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Criminal procedure — Illegal sentence — Diminution credits

On March 23, 2001, fifteen-year-old Louis Pierre Easter was tried and convicted in the Circuit Court for Baltimore City for the murders of Al Dante Brown and Clarence Miller. After the trial, Mr. Easter was sentenced to life-plus-thirty-years in prison. Mr. Easter sought to challenge his sentence as illegal in light of Carter v. State, 461 Md. 295 (2018), and after some procedural turns we’ll detail below, the circuit court denied it. He also filed a motion to modify his sentence that the court denied as untimely. He appeals both decisions.

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