Alston v. State

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• reviewing the circuit court’s power to reopen under § 7-104 upon the State’s motion for reconsideration
• petitioner contended that the resolution of a postconviction proceeding in his favor removed the court’s power to reopen it to convict and sentence him
• motion appropriate when trial court had unlawfully reopened a 17 terminated postconviction proceeding
• “[T]he most important principle is ‘that, as a general rule, a Rule 4-345(a) motion to correct an illegal sentence is not appropriate when the alleged illegality “did not inhere in the defendant’s sentence.” ’ ”
• motion appropriate when trial court had unlawfully reopened a terminated postconviction proceeding

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

15 cases in this archive cite this case.

• McCarty v. E. J. Korvette, Inc.
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 1975-11-03· cited 34×
• Johnson v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 2012-07-10· cited 27×
• Carlini v. State
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 2013-12-18· cited 22×
• Syed v. State
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 2018-03-29· cited 9×
• Farmer v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 2022-08-26· cited 8×
• Waker v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 2013-03-26· cited 8×
• State v. Adams-Bey
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 2016-08-25· cited 7×
• Rainey v. State
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 2018-04-02· cited 7×
• Ray v. State
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 2016-09-29· cited 5×
• Pitts v. State
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 2021-05-04· cited 3×
• Colvin v. State
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 2015-11-30· cited 1×
• State v. Syed
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 2019-03-08
• Hamrick v. State
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 2024-09-04
• Bivens v. Clark
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 2025-07-11
• Davis v. State
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 2025-09-03

Cites

26 cases in this archive are cited by this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

• Walczak v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1985-03-06· cited 122×
• Chaney v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 2007-03-14· cited 110×
• Evans v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 2006-12-19· cited 93×
• Gray v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 2005-08-10· cited 82×
• Hoile v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 2008-05-07· cited 60×
• Maryland v. Kanaras
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1999-12-20· cited 59×
• Moosavi v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1999-08-30· cited 50×
• State v. Wilkins
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 2006-06-09· cited 47×
• Cuffley v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 2010-10-28· cited 47×
• Jones v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 2005-01-20· cited 44×
• Thanos v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1993-11-10· cited 44×
• Evans v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 2004-07-23· cited 43×
• Cottman v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 2006-12-08· cited 38×
• Ridgeway v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 2002-05-08· cited 33×
• Holmes v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 2000-12-20· cited 31×
• Matthews v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 2012-01-26· cited 29×
• Grayson v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1999-05-07· cited 28×
• Montgomery v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 2008-06-11· cited 24×
• Evans v. Maryland
  Supreme Court· 2007-10-01· cited 23×
• Baker v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 2005-10-03· cited 23×