Order affirmed.
The application was grounded on a contention that defendant's prior conviction in the State of Maryland, after a jury trial, could not serve as the basis for sentencing him as a multiple offender because he was denied counsel at a preliminary hearing before a Magistrate, who ordered him held for the Grand Jury. Under Maryland's preliminary hearing procedure, defendant was not required to enter a plea or assert any defenses lest they be waived, but...
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