Matthews v. State

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that a court could not agree to impose a sentence “within the guidelines” but then give a sentence that suspended all but an amount within the guidelines because a reasonable defendant would believe that “within the guidelines” included suspended time
• observing that a sentence imposed in violation of Rule 4-243(c) is “not merely the product of procedural error” but, rather, is “inherently illegal and thereby subject to correction under Rule 4-345(a)”
• “We have deemed sentences inherently ‘illegal’ ... when the sentences exceeded the limits imposed by law, be it statute or rule”
• motion to correct an illegal sentence appropriate when the trial court had unlawfully imposed a sentence that exceeded the penalty provided in a binding plea agreement in accordance with a Maryland Rule
• motion to correct an illegal sentence appropriate when the trial court had unlawfully imposed a sentence that exceeded the penalty provided in a binding plea agreement in accordance with a Maryland Rule
• “We viewed the illegality [of Cuffley’s sentence] as inhering in the sentence itself; the sentence, in other words, was not merely the product of procedural or trial court error.” (emphasis added) (footnote omitted)

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

27 cases in this archive cite this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

• Johnson v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 2012-07-10· cited 27×
• Meyer v. State State v. Rivera
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 2015-12-22· cited 25×
• Carlini v. State
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 2013-12-18· cited 22×
• State v. Crawley
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 2017-08-02· cited 21×
• Alston v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 2012-03-23· cited 21×
• Bonilla v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 2015-05-22· cited 8×
• 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×
• Miles v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 2013-11-25· cited 8×
• Smith v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 2017-06-22· cited 7×
• Rainey v. State
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 2018-04-02· cited 7×
• State v. Smith
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 2016-09-29· cited 5×
• Ray v. State
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 2016-09-29· cited 5×
• Ray v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 2017-07-28· cited 4×
• Pitts v. State
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 2021-05-04· cited 3×
• State v. Bustillo
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 2022-08-24· cited 3×
• Falero v. State
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 2013-06-28· cited 3×
• Hughes v. State
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 2019-11-07· cited 3×
• Bonilla v. State
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 2014-05-27· cited 1×
• Y.Y. v. State
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 2012-06-27· cited 1×

Cites

17 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Santobello v. New York
  Supreme Court· 1971-12-20· cited 5,257×
• 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×
• Randall Book Corp. v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1989-06-07· cited 106×
• Maryland v. Kanaras
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1999-12-20· cited 59×
• State v. Griffiths
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1995-06-16· cited 54×
• 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×
• Goff v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 2005-06-06· cited 40×
• Dotson v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1991-01-07· cited 36×
• Montgomery v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 2008-06-11· cited 24×
• Solorzano v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 2007-03-19· cited 23×
• Baines v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 2010-10-28· cited 23×
• Tshiwala v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 2012-01-23· cited 21×
• Pollard v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 2006-08-02· cited 12×
• Matthews v. State
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 2011-02-07· cited 7×
• Matthews v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 2011-05-20· cited 1×