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REPORTED IN THE COURT OF SPECIAL APPEALS OF MARYLAND No. 770 September Term, 2000

DONALD WADE BLANKENSHIP, JR.

v.

STATE OF MARYLAND

Moylan, Bishop, John J., Jr., (Ret., Specially Assigned), Thieme, Raymond G., Jr., (Ret., Specially Assigned), JJ.

OPINION BY MOYLAN, J.

Filed: December 13, 2000

By

separate Jr.,

indictments, was charged all

the with

appellant, seven

Donald and 5

Wade two 9,

Blankenship, attempted 1999.

robberies June Prince

robberies of

that

occurred

between in

and

Three

those

offenses

occurred

George's On

County and the other six occurred in Montgomery County.

November 23, 1999, the three Prince George's County cases were transferred to the Circuit Court for Montgomery County. appellant subsequently pled guilty to all offenses. On March 10, 2000, Judge Paul A. McGuckian sentenced the appellant to a term of five years incarceration with all but two years suspended for each offense. consecutively. 238 days he The sentences were to run The

The court then gave the appellant credit for the spent in custody before the imposition of his

sentences.

That credit was applied towards one of the offenses

of which he was convicted and sentenced, to wit, the Prince George's County robbery of Aissata Bah. On March 22, 2000, the appellant filed a Motion to Correct an Illegal Sentence. He argued that pursuant to Md. Ann. Code,

art. 27

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