BUTLER v. STATE

No. 1599, September Term, 1982.

55 Md. App. 409 (1983)

462 A.2d 1230

CHARLES REED BUTLER v. STATE OF MARYLAND.

Court of Special Appeals of Maryland.

Decided July 13, 1983.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

David P. Sutton, Assigned Public Defender, with whom was Alan H. Murrell, Public Defender, on the brief, for appellant.

Deborah K. Chasanow, Assistant Attorney General, with whom were Stephen H. Sachs, Attorney General, Stephen J. Braun, State's Attorney for Charles County, and Leonard Collins, Assistant State's Attorney for Charles County, on the brief, for appellee.

The cause was argued before GILBERT, C.J., and MOYLAN and ALPERT, JJ.


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

At its most fundamental level, the problem is that lines that should be drawn with precision are being, carelessly or deliberately, blurred. A blurred fact pattern begets a blurred issue; a blurred issue begets a blurred appellate decision; a blurred appellate decision begets more blurred issues ad infinitum.

The single, but exasperatingly diffuse, claim of the appellant, Charles Reed Butler, is that he...

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