YANES v. STATE

No. 1473, September Term, 1981.

52 Md. App. 150 (1982)

448 A.2d 359

CHRISTOPHER DURAN YANES v. STATE OF MARYLAND.

Court of Special Appeals of Maryland.

Decided July 12, 1982.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John W. Sause, Jr., District Public Defender, for appellant.

Richard B. Rosenblatt, Assistant Attorney General, with whom were Stephen H. Sachs, Attorney General, Paul S. Podolak, State's Attorney for Cecil County, and John L. Scarborough, Assistant State's Attorney for Cecil County, on the brief, for appellee.

The cause was argued before GILBERT, C.J., and WILNER, J., and EUGENE M. LERNER, Associate Judge of the Fifth Judicial Circuit, specially assigned.


GILBERT, C.J., delivered the opinion of the Court. LERNER, J., concurs in the result.

We herein extend the ambit of Sutton v. State, 289 Md. 359, 424 A.2d 755 (1981) and declare that the proceedings in the Circuit Court for Cecil County amounted to the "functional equivalent of a guilty plea." Ergo, because the plea did not comply with Md....

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