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BRUCE v. STATE

No. 959, September Term, 1974.

26 Md. App. 683 (1975)

338 A.2d 316

PAUL EVERETTE BRUCE v. STATE OF MARYLAND.

Court of Special Appeals of Maryland.

Decided June 5, 1975.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Robert N. Winkler, Assigned Public Defender, for appellant.

Bruce C. Spizler, Assistant Attorney General, with whom were Francis B. Burch, Attorney General, Sandra A. O'Connor, State's Attorney for Baltimore County, and Michael B. Sauer, Assistant State's Attorney for Baltimore County, on the brief, for appellee.

The cause was argued before POWERS, GILBERT and DAVIDSON, JJ.

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

According to Bernard Schwartz in The American Heritage History of the Law in America at 33 (1974), the late John Adams, in speaking of his oft-criticized, but highly successful defense of the British troops charged with the killings in the Boston Massacre, opined: "I have no hesitation that Council [sic] ought to be the very last thing that an accused person ... ...

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