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RENSHAW v. STATE

No. 610, September Term, 1974.

25 Md. App. 270 (1975)

333 A.2d 363

DAVID HERBERT RENSHAW v. STATE OF MARYLAND.

Court of Special Appeals of Maryland.

Decided March 17, 1975.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

H. Michael Hickson, Assigned Public Defender, for appellant.

Alexander L. Cummings, Assistant Attorney General, with whom were Francis B. Burch, Attorney General, and Donaldson C. Cole, Jr., State's Attorney for Cecil County, on the brief, for appellee.

The cause was argued before POWERS and LOWE, JJ., and JOHN C. ELDRIDGE, Associate Judge of the Court of Appeals, specially assigned.

LOWE, J., delivered the opinion of the Court.

There is an increasing number of disturbing cases where a defendant's right to representation by counsel appears to be manipulated as a stratagem to induce reversible error.1 After counsel has been appointed to defend him, the indigent awaits the day of trial before discharging that counsel in open court. Thereupon he prevails upon the court to...

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